The Parliamentary or constitutional history of England, from the earliest times, to the restoration of King Charles II

THE LIBRARY

OF

THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

THE

PARLI A MENTARY

O R

CONSTITUTIONAL

Hiftory of England,

From the earlieft TIMES,

T O T H E

Reftoration of King CHARLES II,

COLLECTED

J"rom the RECORDS, the ROLLS of Parliament, the JOURNALS
of both Houfes, the Public LIBRARIES, Orignal MANU-
SCRIPTS, fcarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS ; all compared with
the feveral Contemporary Writers, and connected, through-
put, with the Hiftory of the Times.

By SEVERAL HANDS.

THE SECOND EDITION.
IN TWENTY- FOUR VOLUMES,

VOL. XIV.

From the battle of Nefeby, in June 1 645, to July i, 1 646.

LONDON,

Printed for J. and R. T o N s o N, and A. MILLAR, in the
Strand i and W.SAN D BY, \i\Fleet-Jlreet.

MDCCLXIII.

J

30 /
H<7

v./V-
T O T H E

P U B L I C K,

IN the Courfe of the following Volumes the
Pveader will find a very minute and circumftanti-
al Account of many Debates in Parliament upon
the moft interefting Topics, and feveral Papers
of Importance, hitherto, in a great Meafure, con-
cealed from the Notice of the Public : Some Ac-
count, therefore, of the Authorities from whence
they are derived cannot be improper.

, . . . ...

I N order to this it is necefiary to premife,

that, during the Civil Wars, and more particular-
ly after the Army began to give Law to the Par-
liament who had raifed them, there was publiihed
a vaft Variety of Journals, Diaries, £&-, fome
weekly, fome oftner : To give a Catalogue of all
thefe would be endlefs ; we (hall therefore only
mention the principal : And firft, a Pamphlet
call'd The MODERATE INTELIGENCER, imparti-
ally communicating Martial Affairs to the King-
dom of England (a). This ^journal feems to
have been published under the Direction of the

(a) Printed for R. Ltybotrne, in Monlfaetl-Prtet, Lfnden.

VOL. XIV. az Army

1272168

Afriiy alone, and was licenfed by Gilbert Mabbotj
appointed to that Office by tke Parliament, upon
the Recommendation of Lord Fairfax,- and his
General Council of Officers. . From hence feveral
Letters', and valuable Fapers 6f State; are exa^SJ
copied into Mr.- Rujhifortb'S Collections and Mr,
WhithcKs Memorials.

£• next 'Ig; intituled MERCURIES PRAC-
0s,J communicating Intelligence from* alt

'Parts, touching all 'Affairs, JDr/igns, Humours, and
Conditions throughout the Kingdom ; efpecia'/fy

/r^'Weltminfter and the Head Quarters (b). This
Author enters rrtore p'articularly into the Tranf-
adfcng-bf Parliament than any other Joiirnatift >
for he not only gives a very exacl: Detail of their

^Votes and Refolutions, and the refpective Divi-
lions thereupon -, but alio, \Vith a furprizing
Boldnefs for the Times, fupplies us with Minutes
of their Debates, in fuch a Manner as to render it
highly probable he muft have had his Information
fromfome of the Members themfelves. And as
we find, upon comparing his Narrative with the
^journals of both Houfes, it coincides exacllywirh
thofe Authorities as to the feveral Votes' and Divi*
fions, there can be little or no Reafon to doubt the
Veracity of it in regard to the Debates themfelves j
and the rather, fmce die Arguments, attributed-
to the refpedtive Members, correfpohd with their

(.b) Thtt JtHtrtal ha; not «ie ftuntof the Printcr^rl'ubii/her.

general

•funeral Characters an,d Conduct as gi?en by* oftrer
ili'tor'ians. "LQT&Clarentkn has taken great Part
of his Account of the Debates in Parliament front
this Writer; and; in feve'ral Inilances, in Tcrminis.

T PI E latter' of the& two Jourhalifis appears to'
nave retained as much on the Part of the King, as:
the foiWr for the Parliament and the Army.
Both of them Having, accordingly, thrown their'
Refbciions iii favour of their reipedfve Patronv
we have, in our Quotations from' them, confined
cui-felves nieerly to the I^acls they relate, ilripp'd'
of fuch fafc^i'cai Expreflions as ferve nt> other

Furpofe than ta mew the Attachment of the Au-
i ,

thors to the Parties they had, refpe&ively, efpoufedv

BESIDES tliefe, and an ihiinite NuHBer
cf otlier Pamphlets and printed Papers of the"
Times', the' Reader will find, digefted in their
proper Series, a" large' Collection of Letters/ Ke-
moDiiron'ces,' Declarations; £s?r: prefented to both1
Houies, on v?.ri6us Occaiions; by the Scots Com-'
rniflioners refidin'g in London , and, particularly,'
touching the King's throwing hihifclf into the
Hands of their A'rmy during, the Siege of Newark y
their delivering him up afterwards" to the Cornmif-'
licners appointed by the Parliament of 'England to1
receivi him' ; r^i'd their Protefhition, in the Name1
6f the whole Kingdom of Scotland, addrefs'd to
ihe Speaker of the Kcule of Commons in January

VOL. XI-V.' a 3 164.^,-

t vi]

againft bringing his Majefty to a Trial,

and taking away his Life. All thefe Papers

may, by fome, be thought very tedious ; but, as
they give great Light into the fucceeding Tranf-
adtions, and are no where to be met with intire
but in the Lords Journals, or in the feparate Edi-
tions printed at the refpective Times, by Direction
of the Scots Commiflioners themfelves, it is but
Juftice to that Nation, and to Truth, to infert
them at large ; which is the more necerTary, be-
caufe moft of them are either entirely omitted,
or fligbtly palled over, by Mr. Rufhwortb.

W E have now brought our Hiftory down to
that interefling Crifio, when Monarchy was abo-
liflied.; the Houfe of Peers turned out of Doors -,
their very Records feized on by the Commons ;
•and the latter voted themfelves to be the Sol*
Legiflative Power of the Nation.

OUR Nineteenth Volume will begin with
the Out-Lines of the fucceeding Commonwealth :
Among!* other Materials of lefs Import, this Part
of the Work will receive great Advantage from a
printc'd Journal, lately fallen into our Hands,
intituled, Several Proceedings in Parliament, licen-
fed by their Clerk, Henry Scobell, Efq; and pub-
liihed weekly.
2

FROM

[ vii]

FROM this iaft Authority, and the Editi-
ons of the moft remarkable Votes and Refoluti-
ons, printed at the refpeclive Times of pafTmg
them, we {hall be enabled to reftore many im-
portant PafTages, which, upon the Re-admiffion
of the Members that had been fecluded by the
Army in December 1648, were expunged out of
the Original Journal, in February and March
1659, by their Order ; which Event, foon after,
made Way for the Reilitution of Monarchy and
the antient Conftitution of this Kingdom,

a 4

THE

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY

O F

ENGLAND.

E concluded our laft Volume with AH. zi Car. I.
an Account of the King's own 1645.

Cabinet of Letters being taken at * " '

the Battle of Nafcby, by Sir Tho- July'
mas Fairfax ; and the Refolutions
ofbothHoufes for appointing a The parliament's
joint Committee to direct the Obfervations on
printing and publiihing the moft material of them, '"6'"

with Obfervations thereupon. The Report from
the faid Committee was made, on the third of
"July^ by the Earl of Northumberland^ to the Lords ;
to which it may not be improper to fubjoin the
Paflages in the King's Letter to the Queen, on
which thefe Animadverfions are grounded.

1. ' That the King endeavours to overthrow
' the Act of Parliament, and his public Declara-
* tlons of acknowledging this Parliament at the
' Treaty, by an A61 of Council at Oxford) and an
' Entry upon the Council-Book.

2. ' That his Owning of the Parliament was
c only to draw on the Treaty , by which we hoped

VOL, XIV. A ' for

t The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. zi Car. I. for Advantage, without any Intention to acknow-
ledge it in Deed.

That the King wpuld never have acknowr
ledged the Parliament, if he had had but two
' Men to have ftuck to him in denying it ; himfelf
' being more ready to deftroy the Parliament, and

* more violently bent againft it, than his very Ox-
f ford Council.

4. ' That the Kingdoms and Parliaments could
6 hardly expect, but with great Difficulty, to have
' Aflurance to reft upon any thing that the King
f declares, when his public Declarations are thus
5 undermined by private 4tts ond Regifters.

(N° 15. (a) ) Oxford, Jan. 2, 1644.

As for my calling thofe at London a Parliament^
I Jhall refer thee to Digby for particular Satisfac-
tion : This in general, If there had been but two, be-
ftdes myfelf, of my Opinion, I had not done it ; and
the Argument that prevailed with me was, That the
Calling did no way acknowledge them to be a Par-
liament-, upon which Condition and Conftruftion I
did it, and no otherwife, and accordingly it is re-
gi/Jer d in the Council-Books, with the Council's una-
'nimous Approbation ; but thou wilt find that it was
by Misfortune, not Negleff, that thou hajl been no
Joonfr advertised of it.

5. ' TThat the King endeavours to bring in a

* foreign Prince of the Romijh Religion, with an
' Army of Strangers, to invade this Kingdom,

* which the King and his Party hath folemnly pro-

* tefted never to do.

6. < That

(«) The Extrafls are taken from the King's Letters at large,
which were published by the fpecial Order of Parliament, under the
Title of *n>e Kings Cabinet opined; or certain Packets of fee ret
Letters and Papers, ittritten tuith the King's o'tvn Hand, and taken
in his Cabinet at Nafeby Fiejd, June 14, 1645, h •v'^cr'ol's •$""
Thomas Fairfax j tuber tin many Myfterics of i>tate, tcr.d.ng to the
jufiif cation of that Catife, for which Sir Tlion'.a? Fa'rlax joined
£attlt that memorable Day, arc clearly laid cffr. ; t wither with Jome
\Annotatiomtbereufen.' We find, ' u'pcn ('ompariU n, ihat tl ty agree
i<crbatifK with the Copies iheuof given in l-'c; •f.cii's hditirn of the
Kings Wo.ks ; and the Numbers, prefixed to iheie Extracts, rel'sr
to the Order in which .they fland therein.

*/* ENGLAND. 3

* 6. « That the King and Queen expect Affift- An. iz Car.
' ance in this Bufinefs, by Shipping, from the Prince **45-

* of Orange, from whom, being a Proteftant Prince, -J""
< we had Reafon to hope better.

(N° 32.) Oxford, March 30, 1645.

/ mujl again tell thee, that mojl aj/uredly France
will be the bejl Way for Tranfportation of the Duke
of Lorrain's Army, there being divers fit and fafe
Places of landing for them upon the Weitern Coajls,
befides the Ports under my Obedience, as Selfey near
Chichefter, and others, of which I will advertife
thee when the Time comes.

(N° 26.) Oxford, Feb. 19, 1645.

Dear Heart, / cannot yet fend thee any certain
Word concerning the IJfue of our Treaty ; only the
unreasonable Stubbornnefs of the Rebels gives daily
lefs and lefs Hopes of any Accommodation' this Way ;
wherefore I hope no Rumours Jhall hinder thee from
haftening all thou mayft, all pojjible AJfiftance to me,
and particularly that of the Duke of Lorrain's ; con-
cerning which I received, Yejlerday, good News from
Dr. Goffe, that the Prince of Orange will fur nijh
Shipping for his Tranfportation ; and that the rejl of
his Negotiation goes hopefully on.

7. « That the Embargo of the Merchant Ships
is a fpecial Fruit of the Queen's Negotiation
there, who ufeth Means to bring Enemies upon
us, and to take Trade and Commerce from us.

8. * That the King will make no Peace but
fuch a one as {hall invite the Queen's Return,
with whom he hath concluded private Grounds
and Instructions, according to which he will ma-
nage all Treaties.

(N° 26.) Oxford, Feb. 19, 1645,

Sabran (b} fent me Word Yefterday, befides fome
Compliments, of the Embargo of the Rebels Ships
in France, (which I likewife put upon thy Score of
Kindnefs) but is well enough content that the Portu-
gal Jhould be charged with thy Difpatchcs. As for
trufling the Rebels, either by going to London or
A 2 dijbanding

(£) The French Refidcnt in England.

4 tfbe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I, dijbanding my Army before a Peace, do no Ways fear
j my hazarding fa cheaply or foolijhly ; for I eft e em the
Inter eft thou haft in we at far dearer Rate, and pre-
tend to have a little more Wit (at leaft by the Sympa-
thy that is betwixt us) than to put myfelf into the
Reverence of perfidious Rebels.

(N° 24.) Oxford, Feb. 15, 1644.

/ aj/ure thee that thou needft not doubt the IJJue
$f this Treaty ; for my CommiJJioners are Jo well
chofen (though I fay. it) that they will neither be
threatened nor dtfputed from the Grounds I have
given them ; which >, upon my Word, is according to
the little Note thou fa well remembers. And in this
not only their Obedience hut their 'Judgments concur.

9. < That he will be conftant to the Biihops
e and his Friends, and not admit of Peace without
f putting a fhort Period to this perpetual Parlia-
« ment.

(N° 18.) Oxford, Jan. 9, 1644.

The fettling of Religion and the Militia are the
prft to he treated on; and be confident, that I will
neither quit Epifcopacy nor that Sword which God
hath given into my Hands.

(N° 24.) Oxford, Feb. 15, 1644.

There is little or no Appearance but that this Sum-
mer will be the hotteft for ff^ar of any that hath been
yet ; and be confident that, in making Peace, / Jhall
ever Jhew my Conftancy in adhering to Bijhops and all
our Friends, and not forget to put a Jhort Period to
this perpetual Parliament. But, as thou loves me, l<>t
none perfuade thee to Jlacken thine AJJiftance for hhp.
who is eternally thine. C. R.

10. * That thu King intends to take away all
penal Laws againft the Papifts in England, by
the Arms and Afliftance of Papifts, and in their
Favour,

11. * That the fame Power that may take away
thefe Laws, may take away all other Laws; and
fo, by Force, fubje£t both Religion and Liberty

' to

^ENGLAND. $

' to the Will and Pleafure of the King and Roman An. »i Car.
« Catholics. l6*5

(NQ 28.) Oxford, March 5, 1644. J«ly.

// being Prefumption, and not Piety, fo to trujl to
a good Caufe, as not to ufe all lawful Means to main"
tain it, I have thought of one Means more to furnijh ,
thee with fjr my Ajjijlance, than hithertc thou haft
had : It is, that I give thee Power to iromife, in my
Name, to whom thou ibinkejl maft fit, that I will
take away all the Penal Laws again/I the Roman Ca-
tholics in England, as foon as God jball make me able
to do it ; fo as by their Means, or in their Favours,
I may have fo powerful AjfiJIance as may deferve fo
great a Favour, and enable me to do it.

12. ( That they who have deferted their Truft
in Parliament, and given up their Lives, For-
tunes, and Confciences to a Compliance with
the King, will be now 'defpifed by the Name of
a bafe, mutinous, and mungrel Parliament, be-
caufe they yet retain 'd a little Confcience of Re-
ligion in this Parliament.'

«(N° 29;) Oxford, March 13, 1644.

Dear Heart, what I told thee the lajl Week con-
cerning a good Parting with our Lords and Commons
here, was, on Monday loft, handfomely performed 5
and now if I do any thing unhandfome or difadvan-
tageous to my fe If or Friends, in order to a Treaty, it
will be meerly my own Fault ; for I confefs, when
I wrote lajt, I was in Fear to have been prejfed to
make fame mean Overtures to renew the Treaty,
knowing that there were great Labouring to that
Purpofe : But now I promife thee, if it be renewed,
(which I believe will not, without fame eminent
good Succefs on my Side) it Jhall be to my Honour
and Advantage, I being now as well freed from the
Place of bafe and mutinous Motions (that is to fay,
our Mungrel Parliament here) as of the chief Cau-
Jers, for whom I may jujlly expeft to be chidden
by thee, for having Buffered thee to be 'Vexed by
them,

A 3 July

6 tfbe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. *t Car. I. July 5. Several Letters are next entered in the

l64S- Journals, concerning the Rendition of Carlijle, a

"""T^f"*""""' Garrifon of the King's, which had held out a long

and tedious Siege againft the Scots Army ; but now,

as they could expecl no Relief from his Majefty,

at laft furrendered upon honourable Articles. This

Frontu r Town occafioned a Jealoufy between the

Letters relating twQ Nutions who were tQ be the Poffeffcrs of it.
to the Kenoitjon f . T i i • /• »»/» r IP

of Carlifle to the The Inhabitants of CarltJJe, before the Surrender,
Parliament. made it one of their Terms, That an Englijb Go-
vernor and Garrifon Ihould be put into it, and to
which both Houfes of Parliament confented ; but
the Town was no fooner given up than the Scots
entered and took Pofleifion of it, againft all the
Remonftrances that the Parliament's Commiflion-
ers for the Northern Counties could make to the
contrary. This was the Occafion of the Letters
before-mentioned being read in the Houfe of Lords
on this Day ; but, as yet, no more Notice is taken
of the Bufmefs.

July 7. A Letter from the Scott Generals was
read in the Houfe of Lords, directed as follows :

For the Right Honourable the Cpmmittee of both
Kingdoms.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

have refolved, according to your Lord/hips
Defire, to advance to Worcefter, and are this
Day to begin our March from hence, notwithjland-
ing many Difficulties and Wants* Tour Lordjhips
•will be particularly informed by our Commijfioners,
•who are with you9 concerning our NeceJJitics^ and
the Supplies and Provijions which are defired ; as
alfo concerning the NeceJ/ity of a Scots Garrifon and
Governor In Carlifle for the Safety of your Borders^
which we look upon as of fuch Confluence, as with-
cut it we can expeft no letter than that the malignant
and difajfetted Party in the Northern Counties of
this Kingdom, and their Correfpondtnts and Accom-
plicet in the Kingdom of Scotland, co-operating to-

gether.

^ENGLAND. f

gether, will make fucb Commotions and Troubles An. 21 Car. T.

upon the Borders, as will necejfitate the States of ^.

Scotland to recall this Army, or a Part thereof. ju'j •

All which, together with feme other Particulars, fo

foon as they Jhall be represented to your Lofdjhips by

our Commijffioners upon this Place, we intreat and

expeft from your Lord/hips, that you will improve

your Credit with the Honourable Houfes of Parlia-

ment^ that we may have fuch a fatisfacJory Anfyet

returned^ as may be an Encouragement to this Army

in their Advance Southwards, and may entertairi

mutual Truji and Confidence between the Kingdomsi

We remain ,

Your Lordfhips rnofl humble Servants^

Nottingham, July i,

IC>45' HAMILTON,

Another Paper, dated July 4, 1645, to defire
that Provifions be fent down to fupply the Scots
Army.

"\T7 E are defired by the Committee of Eftates And the Match
V V for the Kingdom of Scotland, refiding with of the Scots At'
the Scots Army, now on their March to ffor- myt°
cejier, to reprefent, by your Lordfliips, to the
Honourable Houfes of Parliament, the Particu-
lars following :

* That a folid and effectual Courfe be taken for
the conilant Payment of the Monies due for the
monthly Entertainment of the Army,
' That, for the better managing of the War,
and that there may not be Want of Provifions
and other NecefTaries for the Army, as formerly
there hath been, to the great Difcouragement of
the Soldiers, and Prejudice of the Public Ser-
vice, a Committee be fpeedily fent from both
Houfes, according to the Treaty, to refide with
the Army, authorized with Power for that Pur-
pofe*

A 4 « That

8 TJje Parliamentary HISTORY

An. ai Car. I. « That Orders be fent to feveral Counties, to
furnifli Provifions and other Necefiaries for the

' That, left the Armies. fhould be reduced to
' Extremities for Want of their Pay, and the
V Country unwilling to afford them Provifions, the

* Committee have Power to caufe to provide ne-
« ceffary Entertainment for the Army by Billet,
1 Affeffment, or otherwife.

' That, upon any neceffary Occafion, fome
' great Ordnance with their Furniture and Am-

* munition, and, for the prefent, 100 Barrels of
' Powder, with Match and Ball proportionable, be
' provided and fent to Coventry or Warwick.

*• That Spades, Shovels, Mattocks, and other
( Materials, be' in Readinefs, upon all Occafions,

* for the Ufe of the Army ; and a conftant Num-

* ber of Draughts to attend their marching and

* removing.

« That the additional Forces of Horfe and Foot,
fc fo often promifed, becondefcended upon and made
'. certain, to join prefently and remain conftantly
' with the Army ; the Forces formerly defigned

* not being, in Effect, the Number they were
' efleemed ; and thofe few that were drawn toge-
' ther being returned to their feveral Garrifons,
' fcarce a Strength fufficient to fecure the Country
' from the Garrifons of Newark and other Places.

' 7'hat (tiiC Lncmy's Strength confifting moftly

* in Horfe) a competent Sum may be fpeedily pro-

* vided out of the Arrears due to the Army, for
( the raifing icoo Plorfe ; and that Piftols and
c Saddles be provided for thofc Horfe, and fent

* fpeedily to the Army.

* That 500 Pair of Piftols be prefently fent to

* the Army.

' That, in every County where the Army fhall

* come, a Proportion of Horfes may be afforded,.

* upon reafonable Rates, to fupply the Horfes that
' fhall fail upon Service, which is to be difcounted
' out of the Arrears of the Army, and paid to the

* Owners of the Horfes by the Parliament j which,

* as

fo E N G L A N D. 9

* as it is moft neceflary for the Service and keep- An- « Car- *•

< ing the Number of the Cavalry entire, fo it will t

« prevent the Prejudice and Complaint of the juiy

< Country, for having their Horfes taken without

* Satisfaction.

' That fmce now the Scots Army, by whom
« the Northern Counties were reduced and kept

* in Obedience to the King and Parliament, is

* marched South, the Forces appointed by the Or-
4 dinance of Parliament may be fpeedily raifed in

* the Northern Counties, and ordered to keep the
c Field, for the Security of the Northern Parts ;

* left the Malignants, joining with the King's Gar-

* rifons, raife new Forces, and ftrengthen them-

* felves, to the fpoiling and wafting of the Coun-
' try, or fending a Party to difturb the Borders of
4 Scotland : All which may now be prevented with
' greater Eafe and Security than afterwards can
« be remedied j and, if neglected, may prove the
' lofmg of the Northern Counties, and may oc-

* cafion the drawing back of the Scots Army; who,

< finding the North fecured and the Borders of

* Scotland free of Danger, may, with the greater
' Confidence and Refolution, profecute the War

* in the South.

« That fpecial Care be had for fecuring the City
« of York.

' That four Troops from the Northern Forces

* be appointed to attend Colonel Walden, now

* Sheriff" for the County of Northumberland, the
' General being to call away the four Troops of
c the Scots Cavalry that are with him for the pre-
« fent.

' That Colonel-General Poyntz be defired, by
e the Parliament, to hold Correfpondence with his
« Excellency the Earl of Leven.

' That all Towns, Caftles, Garrifons, Forts,
« Bridges, and Panes under the Power of the

* Parliament*, where the Stots Army (hall come,
« be patent to them ; and the Governors ?.nd
' Commanders thereof, by Ordinance of Parlia-

' n ent,

io The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. si Car. I. « ment, be appointed and directed to affift and
* fupply them upon all Occafions/

By Command of the CommiJJioners of the Parlia-
ment 0/" Scotland.

July 4, 1645. JOHN G HIE SLY.

Another Letter from General Fairfax to the
Committee of the two Kingdoms, was this Day
read, giving an Account of a new independent
Army, called Club-Men, i aifed of themfelves, but
grown at this Time to a very confiderable Force,
who feemed to threaten Mifchief to both or either
of the contending Parties as they faw Occafion :
The Rife of them will be beft understood by Gene-
ral Fairfax's Letter and its Confequences.

For the Right Honourable the COMMISSIONERS
of both Kingdoms at Derby-houfe.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

'S T\/f^ former Letters acquainted your Lordjhips
with my Resolutions to march Weft ward for
Club-Men in the Relief of Taunton, in purfitance whereof I am
XSire!nd Advanced as far as Blandford. 7 could not hither-
to give your Lordjhips an Account of the Condition
ofthefe Counties of Wilts and Dorfet, in Arms un-
der the Name of Club-Men : They pretend only the
Defence of themfelves from Plunder , but not to fide
either with the King's Forces or the Parliament's,
but to give free Quarter to both. The Heads of
them are all, fo far as I can learn, fuch as have
either been in a£lual Service in the King's Army,
or thofe that are known Favourers of that Party ;
nay, fame having Commands at the prefent with the
King. I hear they have drawn up certain Articles,
whereunto they have fubfcribed for the managing
and maintaining this new Party. They have drawn
up Petitions, one to the King and the other to the
Parliament, the Copies whereof I have herewith
ftnt unto your Lordjhfas. The Heads of them have

had

of

E N G L A N D. u

hadfome Treaties with the Governors of the Garri- An. ai Car. I,
fans, both of King and Parliament, that lie near eft to t l64S>
them, and have agreed to pay Contribution to both : """
1 hear 5O/. to Tolfon-Houfe, and the like to Lang-
ford-Houfe. They have appointed Treafurers of their
own for the receiving and paying of the fame, and the
Garrifons, in confederation hereof, are not to raife
Contributions to the?nfelves.

I have fent your Lord/hips one of their War-
rants for raifing of Money, and paying It to Mr.
Holies of Salifbury, who is one of their Heads for
that Purpofe. They give PaJJes to feme of their
Party, whom they call Aflbciates, to pafs freely in
the Country without Molejiation. They inli/l them-
f elves under fever al Officers, and meet daily in great
Bodies at their Rendezvons, and boajl they can have
20,000 Men at twenty-four Hours Warning.
For ajfemlling them together, their Heads fent out
to feveral Towns, and by ringing of Bells, and fend-
ing of Pojls from one Rendezvous to another in the
feveral Towns and Hundreds, they draw int9
great Bodies ; and, for Diftinclion of themfelvet
from other Men, they wear white Ribbons, to Jhew,
as they fay, they are deftrous of Peace. They meet
with Drums, flying Colours ; and, for Arms, they
have Mujkets, (fame, I hear, have been fent them
from SherborneJ Fowling-Pieces, Pikes, Halberts,
great Clubs, and fuch like. They take upon them
to interpofe between the Gar r ij 'on s on either Side ;
end when any of their Forces meet in Places where
they have fufficient Power, as Salifbury and the like,
they will not fujfer them to fight, but make them
drink together, and fo make them depart to their fe-
veral Garrifons. They have come into our Horfe-
£htarters, andjleal Horfes where they find them at
Grafs, and carry them into the Woods. They will
obey no Warrants, no further than they are compell-
ed, for fending in of Provifeons for the Army, or
Draughts for the Carriages, in thefe two Counties.
They are abundantly more ajfcfted to the Enemy
than to the Parliament, and publicly declare what-

foever

1 2 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. feever Party falls on them they will join with tht
t ^j other ; and thofe of the Inhabitants of thefe Counties,

' July. who are really affetJed to the Parliament, that 'do not •
join with them, are daily threatened by them, andfu-
fyeft the IJJue of it will be very mifchievous.

I have the Enemy before me, towards whom I am
advancing with all Expedition, and thefe Men, whs
are very numerous, and afted by Men fa dangerous,
as for the . mojl part their Leaders are, I know not
•what they may attempt ; / therefore dejire your Lord-
jhips Advice in this Bujinefs, being uncertain what to
do before I h: a" from you.

I am careful to prevent any jujl Caufe of Cla-
mour frsm the Country, through any Diforders of
the Army, and hope there will be Care taken for the
fending Money to us, that they may le able to give
Contentment to the People, by difcharging their
Quarters: But I don't at all doubt that, if feme
fpeedy Courfe were taken for the quieting or jiippref-
Jing them, it would be no hard Work ; but I know not
what it may prove in Time. I find their: g "nerally
•very confident of their Caufe and Party, and if here-
after they jhould prefume to give Laws to the Armies,
as they do the Garrifons, it may be of evil Confe-
quence.

For the prefent I jhall offer to your Lordjhips the
commanding of CW<J«t7Fiennes's and Colon el Norton's
Regiments of Horfe into thefe Parts ; who, with the
Ajjiftance of Colonel Ludlow, Sheriff of Wilts, and
the Garrifons in thefe Parts may be able, at leaft, to
keep them from drawing into any great Bodies, to the
Difturbance of the Country.

I dejire your Lordjhips fpeedy Anfwer, and remain

Blandford, July 3, Your Lordftiips
1645.

Moft humble Servant,

THOMAS FAIRFAX.

There was alfo read a Warrant of the Club-
Men, under the Hands of Thomas Bennet, T/joma?

Holies,-

of E N GL A N D. 13

Holies, Thomas Rofe^ IVilllam Gould^ Matthew Mer- An. 21 Car. T.
w», fent to the Tything-men of Ebbejbourne. v 6*5' ,

CHALKE « TT7HEREAS feveral Petitions for
Hundred. ' W Peace are intended to be agreed Their w.rrant
upon by the Inhabitants of this County of for raifinS Mo'
WiltS) and to be prefented, the one to his Ma- ne'
jefty, and the other to the Houfes of Parliament,
it was thought fit by divers Gentlemen and
others, Inhabitants of the Divifion of Sarum, who
are already agreed and entered into an Aflbcia-
tion concerning the fame, that, during fuchTime
as the faid Petition (hall remain unanfwered, a
fpeedy Courfe fijould be taken by way of Treaty
between the faid Gentlemen and Inhabitants of
the faid Divifion, and the Commanders of the
feveral Garrifons of Langford and Fallerfdowne^ as
well for Peace and Safety of the Inhabitants of the
aforefaid Divifion, and others who are charged
by way of Contribution, or otherwife charged
or molefteci by either of the two Garrifons, as
alfo for the necefTary Subfiftance of the faid Gar-
rifons ; upon Notice whereof divers Gentlemen
and Inhabitants of the faid Divifion did meet,
with the Commanders of the feveral Garrifons
ofSarum, the I3th of this Inftant June, and there
did conclude upon certain Articles, both for the
Peace and Safety of the County, and the Sub-
fiftance and Maintenance of the two Garrifons,
as may appear under the Hands of the Gentle-
men and Inhabitants of the faid Divifion and
Commanders of the faid Garrifons, together
with a Confirmation under the Hands . of the
Committee then at Fallerfdowne, in the Behalf
of that Garrifon : Therefore you the Inhabitants
of the Par im of Ebbejbourne- Wake, are defired, by
the Gentlemen whofe Names are here fubfcribed,
to pay, or caufe to be paid, to the fworn Con-
ftable of the Hundred, the Sum of il. iSs. ^d>±
at, or before the 2ift Inftant, being for one
whole Week laft paft, whereby the Conflable
f niay return and pay the fame to John Holies

' of

The Parliamentary HISTORY

of New-Sarum, Gent, who is deputed by the
Gentlemen and Inhabitants to receive the fame ;
to the Intent to difcharge the Payments promifed
to the Garrifons, and for the fame to be account-
able, when he (hall be thereunto required, and
upon Account to pay the Remainder of his Re-
ceipt, if any fuch (hall be, unto fuch as he fhall
be ordered therein : And you are likewife to re-
turn the feveral Names of every Perfon, who
ftands charged therewith within your Tything,
together with the particular Sum of every fuch
Perfon fo taxed, and who they are, in your Ty-
thing, that refufe or neglect to pay the fame.

Tour Friends,

THOMAS BENNETT,
THOMAS HOLLES,
THOMAS ROSE,
WILLIAM GOULD,
MATTHEW MERVIN.

To

a/Ebbefborne,

SIMON WHITE,

Conftable.

An Examination <
taken relating to
them.

' It is conceived the Payment henceforward will
c not amount to fo great a Proportion.'

Next the Examination of Chriftopber Dale of
Salijbury was read, concerning the Club-Men.

Dale of Salijbury ', examined, faith,
That, when he was taken Yefterday, at
Salisbury Town-End, by a Soldier of this Army,
upon Sufpicion of being a Spy^ he was then re-
turning home to Salisbury from Wincanton^ to-
gether with fome Butchers of that Town, with
whom he went there to have his Mare reftored
unto him, and was then bringing her home to
Salisbury. He denieth that he came purpofely
to view the Army, or went out of his Way be-
tween Wincanton and Salisbury to view the fame ;
but it fortuned that as he was on his Journey the
Army marched crofs that Way, and he kept on
his Way thro' the Army, making no Stay to
obferve it. He acknowledged, That heretofore

« he

of E N G L A N D. 15

he bore Arms for the King, and ferved as a A«- 21 Car. I.
Quarter-Mafter under Colonel Bampfield of the t l6*5'
Enemy's Party : But faith, That he laid down TuT
his Arms about three Quarters of a Year ago,
and hath never fince ferved on either Side. But
he further faith, of late he hath aflbciated him-
felf with thofe they called Club-Men of Salisbury ;
that he knoweth no other End of that Aflbcia-
tion but to defend themfelves and their Goods
againft all Plunderers ; but not to oppofe either
Army : That for the Town of Salisbury, there
are chofen fixteen Men, viz. Four out of every
Parifh, to be their Leaders, to guide and direct;
as, namely, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Oviat, Mr. Ed-
munds, and Mr. Green, for St. Thomas's Parifh ;
Mr. Jay, Mr. Hancock, Brewer, Mr. Laws, and
Mr. Hollis, fen. for St. Edmund's Parifti ; Dr.
Hales, Phyfician, Mr. Bait, Mr. Payne, and Mr.
Bee, for St. Martin's Parifh ; Mr. Thorpe, Mr.

Thacker, Mr. Hollis, jun. and for Fifoerton

Parifh ; and Mr. Hollis is Chief over all. He
conceiveth that about Salisbury there are near
700 Club-Men, which at feveral Times appeared,
but he conceiveth that there are more that are
aflbciated . That he believes the Town is able
to furnifh thefe Club- Men with Arms, viz. fome
with Pikes and Mufquets, and others with Car-
bines and Piftols ; but he thinketh that there is
the like Aflbciation of Club-Men all over the
County of Wilts, and that divers Gentlemen,
in their feveral Parifhes, do appear to conduct ;
but he can certainly name none but Mr. Juftice
Bennet, Mr. Gold, Mr. Alhton, and Mr. Ed-
ward Topp. That they have met at feveral
Rendezvous ; that he was prefent at one Ren-
dezvous at Grovcley, where he met the Club-Men
of Salisbury, with fome other Club-Men of Part
pf that County ; and at that Time there ap-
peared about 4000, as was generally faid and
believed : And befides this Rendezvous, there
were kept other Rendezvous for other Parts of
the County, viz. Warm'mfler, Stonage, Wbite-

' Parijb,

An. ai Car. I.
1645.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

Parijhy and Uphaven ; but what Number there
met at the Rendezvous he knoweth not. — • —
That at the Rendezvous where he met at Grove-
ley, there were certain Articles read and propofed
to them, which they all aflented to, by giving
a Shout ; but what the Effect of thofe Articles
were, more than to defend themfelves againft
Plunderers, he cannot tell ; but it was then faid,
they were to be fent both to King and Parlia-
ment to fee how they would like them. And,
two or three Days afterwards, fome of the Gar-
rifons of Forceley and Longford met at Salisbury
with the Club-Men, upon the Invitation of the
Club-Men, when and where the faid Articles
were again propofed, as he hath been informed ;
and thereupon, in the Conclufion, it was agreed,
that the Club-Men fhould give 50 /. a Week to
each Garrifon, until the King and Parliament
had given Anfwer to their Articles/

CHRISTOPHER DALE

Examinat. coram me,
July 2, 1645.

J. MILES, Advocates*

Alfo a Copy of the Petition of the Club-Men was
read, directed to the King, for Peace, &c.

To the KING'S Mojl Excellent Maje/ly,

The HUMBLE APPLICATION of your mojl loyal and
obedient Subjefts, the diJlreJJedProteftants, inhabit-
ing the Counties 0/*Dorfet and Wilts,

Shewed, >

l TH AT 70^ Suppliants .having, more deeply
' JL than any other Parts of this Kingdom,

* ied the Miferies of this unnatural and inteftine

* War, which hath been the more extremely im-
' bittered unto them by the PrefTures of many
' Garrifons both here and in the neighbouring
' Counties, and the oppofite Armies continually
' drawn upon them by reafon thereof, djd lately

* hope that, by Means of the Treaty propofed by

4 your

of JE N G L A N D. 17

1 your Majefty to the Honourable? Houfes of Par- An- *r Car- r'
4 liament at Uxbridge^ they might once again L * ^' ' t
*" have reaped the blefled lifue of their long -loft July.

* Peace, in the happy Accommodation of the pre-
' fent Differences, without further ErTufion of

* Chriftian Blood ; but finding themfelves utterly

* fallen from thofe Hopes, and fo too jjuftly fear-

* ing that the Extremity of thefe Calamities^

* which the Continuance of this bloody War is
' likely to produce, will daily grow more infupport-
' able, unlefs our unchriftian Divifions may timely

* be prevented by fome fudden Accommodation,

* they do here firft and freely acknowledge, with
1 Sorrow and Shame> before God and Man, That

* as it was their extreme Ingratitude, with the
' Difefteem and Abufe of their former Peace,

* which juftly bereft them of that ineftimable Blef-

* fmg ; fo it is their manifold Unworthinefs which

* yet with-holds it from them ; and therefore, in

* Submiflion to the Difpofition of the Divine Cle-

* mency, they ceafe not heartily to pray that God,

* in good Time, would gracioufly anfwer the in-
4 ceflant Applications of his Church with a bleffed

* Keftoration of her and their Peace. And that they

* be not wanting to themfelres in the Search and
' Purfuance of thofe Means which may procure
' fuch a happy Reftitution, they likewife caft them-

* felves at your Majefty's Royal Feet, humbly im-

* plorin^ you to lend a gracious Ear to a farther Trea-

* ty for Peace, if it mall be proffered to your Ma-

* jefty by the two Houfes of Parliament ; for Pro-
4 pofal whereof your Petitioners have made the like
' Addrefs to them, that fuch a firm Peace may once
4 again be eftablifned amongft us, that may prove

* for the Advancement of God's Glory, in the

* Maintenance of the true Reformed Proteftant

* Religion ; for the Safeguard of your Majefty's

* Royal Perfon, Honour, and Eftate ; for Secu-

* rity of the Privileges and Immunities of the Par-
' liament ; and for the Prefervution of the Liber-

* ties and Properties of the Subject ; all which
*• they conceive to be the four main Articles of that

VOL. XIV, B * general

i8

An. 2 1 Car. 1.
1645-

The Parliamentary

general Prate/cation to which the Body of this
Kingdom have formerly fworn : And although
they dare not prefume to intermit themfelves into
the Debate of thofe two great Myfteries of State,
concerning the Prerogatives infeparable from
your Majefty's Royal Perfon and Power, and
the juft Privileges of Parliament, both of which
are left to their Prayers, only for a wimed Deter-
mination and a happy Compofition of them ; yet
they find themfelves bound in Confcience, firft,
and chiefly, as Chriftians, to maintain and ad-
vance, with the utmoft Hazard of their Lives
and Fortunes, the true Reformed Proteftant Re-
ligion ; and next, as free-born Englijbmen^ not
degenerate from the Virtues of their Fathers, by
all poflible and lawful Means to preferve and up-
hold the native Inheritance of their Laws, their
Liberties, and Properties, which they equally
hold in Efteem even with Life itfelf.
' And the faid Petitioners do likewife humbly
pray, That, in cafe fuch a Treaty may be mutu-
ally and unfeignedly admitted, your Majefty, for
your Part, would once again be gracioufly plead-
ed to prefs the Ceflation of Arms during the faid
Treaty^ that the two Houfes of Parliament may be
induced to do the fame, that a Treaty for Peace
may not proceed in Blood : Arid becaufe your
Petitioners are no longer able to fubfift under the
impoflible Obfervance of fo many contrary Com-
mands of fo many Garrifons and feveral Armies,
(who, under Pretence of Contribution, and byim-
meafurable Taxes, continual free Quarter, and
inceflant Plunderings, contrary to your Majefty's
Proclamation in that Behalf, have fcarcely left
your poor Suppliants fufficient for the Support of
Life) they do moft humbly befeech your moft
Sacred Majefty, that, out of your Royal Cle-
mency, whereby you were wont to refent 'the
Mifery of your poor diftrcfled Subjects, you
would be gracioufly pleafed that 'the Number of
your Garrifons in thefe Counties may be lefiened,
m cafe the fcyo Houfes of Parliament fhall, upon

' your

of E1 M G LAND.

* your Subjects Petition to them in that Behalf, do An- =* C3r- L
' the likre with the Garrifons in their Hands ; and It>'

* that all fuch your Garrifons as fhall feem necef-
' fary to be upheld within thefe Counties for the
' Defence thereof, may be intruded in the Hands
*' of the- faid Counties, to be maintained at the

* Charge of the Inhabitants thereof; and not to
' 'be1 delivered up by them to any Perfons, bur fuch'

* only as, by the joint Confent of your Majefty and
*' the twb Houfes of Parliament, mall be authorized

* td'receive the fame. And they mod humbly pray,"
"!T.hat, during their Service in maintaining the'

' Garrifons, .your Majefty would be graciouflypieaf- •
4 ed to free the faid Inhabitants from all Manner
' bf Payments, and all other incumbent Charges,
*" faVe only the: neceffary Quarter of your Majefty 's

* Afmies in their March towards other Parts : And*

* becaufe many diflblute Perfons, taking Advan-
f tage of thefe diftempered Times, and of the

* Abatement of the Edge of Jufiice, do, without
'".Reftr'aint^ commir many heinous' Offences, to

* the great Dishonour of Almighty God, and a

* Scandal to your Royal Government eftablifhed

* by the Laws of this Realm, they further humbly

* pray, That all Acts of Parliament, unrepealed
' and yet in Force againft fuch Offenders, may be

* prefently put into Execution by fuch Officers as

* the fame Acts enable thereunto, without any

* Difturbance in the Execution thereof: And that
'all fuch Perfons as either are or have been in,
e Arms, or otherwife afliftant to either Party in

* this unhappy War, who, for Fear, have abfenced
' themfelves from the Places of their ufuaf Abode,

* or art imprilbned only as Favourers of the other

* Party, may be peaceably permitted to return to

* their wonted Homes and Habitations, and to the
' 'Obedience of the eftablifhed Laws.

4 And your faid Petitioners humbly defire your

* gracious Majefty to underftand, that their fre-

* quent Meetings have been hitherto, as appears,

* for no other End, fave only for Opportunity,
' jointly, to prefe.nt their great Grievances by

B 2 * this

20

An. ai Car. I.

,645-

*fbe Parliamentary HISTORY

this innocent and humble Way of petitioning ;
and to unite themfelves as, by the Purport of the
Proteftation and your Majefty's Proclamation in
their Behalf, they humbly conceive they law-
fully may do, for the Maintenance of their Reli-'
gion, Laws, Liberties, and Properties, againft
all unlawful^ iolence and Plundering whatfoever,
until it {hall pleafe Almighty God to put an End
to thefe fad Diftra&ions.

* In the laft Place, for the Prevention of all
Mifunderftandings, and for the fuller Expreffion,
of their peaceable Intentions, in whatfoever may
be required of them as touching the Premifes,
they humbly befeech your gracious Majefty, that
they may have your Majefty's Warrant for the
fafe Intercourfe of thofe who (hall be employed
by them in this Addrefs to your Sacred Majefty.'

The like Petition to the Parliament, from the
Club-men, mutatis mutandis, is entered in the Lords
Journals j the Confequences of which will fhortly
appear.

The Lords were informed, That there were no
Officers in all the Northern Aflbciation that have
Commiflions, except only Colonel Poyntz, nor can
have any until the major Part of that Committee
meet, which confifts of many Gentlemen of the fe-
veral Counties ; and that, for want of fuch Com-
miflions, thofe Forces are not in a Condition to
adl upon any Occafion or Emergency ; and there-
fore to defire their Lordfhips to confider of fome
Expedient for the Supply of that Defect.

Ordered^ That all thefe Papers, now reported,
mall be communicated to the Houfe of Commons ;
and, accordingly, they were fent down to the
Houfc of Commons by Mr. Seajeant Finch and
Mr. Page. -

Nothing now occurs for fome Time in the Jour-
natty except we mention fome Overtures of the
Scots Commiffioners for more Provifion of Money
to be fent to their Army j and an Account of an-

oti.e t

cf E N G L A N D. 21

other Victory gained by General Fairfax againft An- »»<?"•

Ae Lord Goring, at Langport, in Somerfetfiirey ^ 'fos*

for which another Day of Thankfgiving was ap- TuiyT^
pointed.

15. A Letter from General Fairfax was
read to the Lords, containing a ftiort Account of
the foregoing Action.

To the Right Honourable the Lord GREY of
Work, Speaker of the Houfe of P E E R s.

My Lord,

/T pleafed God, on Thurfday lajl, by this Army, to General Fairfax'*
give General Goring a Defeat. After be re- *c,COunt °f his,
• , f T- ; i • i • / • a J T defeating General

tired from Taunton he lay with his Army at Lang- Goring i

port ; where, with the Advantage of the River and fctfhirp.
Jeveral Garrifons that lay upon it, he put us to great
Straits to find a Way how to engage with him ; tbo' he
had great Advantage t ofPaJJes, yet his Over-confidence
in them proved rather ours than his : Whilft he fent
away his Ordnance and Carriages to Bridge water, he
fronted us with his Army* and pa (Jed 1000 Mufque-
teers thro' a narrow Valley that was betwixt us j but
we forced them to retreat with ours, and the Horfe
feconded them and put the Army into a Rout, pursuing
them almojl into Bridgewater. Two Tboufand taken
Prisoners, few Jlain. We alfo have taken go off Store
of Arms, two Pieces of Ordnance, with many Colours
both of Horfe and Foot. We are marching to Bridge-
water, andjhall make the bejl Ufe we can of this good
Succefs God hath given us.

I dejire your Lord/hip's Pardon for this fiort Re-
lation. This Bearer, Major Harrifon, can fatisfy
your Lordjhip more fully in Particulars, Jo take
Leave to remain

Your Lordfhip's

Chedfoy, July JJt W& humble Servant,

I64S' THOMAS FAIRFAX.

Next Major Harrifon was called in, and made

a Narrative of the whole Affair, Hereupon the

B Jvord*

22 The • Parliamentary H i S'T o R Y

An. it Car. I. Lords gave him Thanks for his good Service dona
in trHs^Bufmds, and- ordered that the Speaker do
write a Letter to Sir Thomas' Fairfax from that
Houfe, to congratulate his good Succefs in the late
Victory, and to give him Thanks for his great
Vigilancy in the Carriage of this Action.

July 1 8. The Commons, by a Committee, had
been all this Time in Examination of the Bufinefs,
Mr. Cranfbrd relating to what Mr, Crarifcrd had declared, con-
finad by tht-Com- ccrning theDefe&icn of fgme of their Members (a] ~y
m"niima]afo7f" and unanimoufly rcfohed, That the faid Report
their Members ; was falfe and fcandalous : That the Words he had
fpoken againft Mr. Crewe, Mr. Pierpoint, Mr.
Solicitor St. John, and Sir Henry Vane, jun. were
alfo falfe and fcandalous : That he fhould pay to
each of the faid Gentlemen the Sum of 500 /. as
Damages, for their Reparation : That he fhould
make an Acknowledgment for his Offence, and
exprefs his Sorrow for the fame, at the Bar of the
Houfe of Commons ; and that he fhould be com-
mitted Prifoner to the Tower during the Pleafure
of the Houfe.

cfir*SS Th; next ?a& 3** ">• tlre c°Tmm;ncs T;

others difmifs'd. cecded upon the Report concerning Lord fyvitu s
Paper, wherein Mr. Holies and Mr. Whitlocke
were taxed with Treachery, when they a&ed as
the Parliament's Commiflioners at Oxford, and
agreed that it fhould be finally laid afide : But, at
the fame Time, it was ordered, That thofe Gen-
tlemen might profecute the Lord Seville if they
thought fit. Mr. Holies and Mr. JVhitelocke be-
ing extremely particular in their refpective Narra-
tives of this Bufmefs, we fhall pafs it by with a Re-
ference to their Memorials \b}. '

Nothing worth Notice, ejther Civil or Military,
relating to thefe Inquiries, occurrino jn theTpM>i-
:i--iions of this Month, we fubjcin an Extratl
from the Lord. Journals, of July 23, of a Com-

p!:u::t

r-0 S^e before, in Vcl. XTIT. 0.425, 499, £">.
(\ !*-J:;s*s Sftmirs, p, 3?^ t&p'fclitl.c, p. r^.3j ft u'lut. '

0f ENGLAND. 23

.plaint made, by the Aflembly of Divines againft a An- ai c*r- '•

blafphemous Book lately publiftied. That Houfe v _* ^ ,

cenfured it to be burnt by the Hands of the com- jui^
mon Hangman, and ordered the Aflembly to draw
up a Deteftation againft fuch Blafphemies ; a Copy
whereof here follows ;

* A S it hath pleafed the Honourable Houfes of A Declaration of
' /I Parliament, out of their pious Care for thc .Affianty ' °r

« r • T> i- • e i_ T -Divines againft a

' preferving Religion pure from the Leaven of biafphemous

* pernicious .and blafphemous Doctrine, to order Book, burnt by
« the Burning of {his moft fcandalous Bopk.; (o

* have they farther ordered us to declare the Abo-
' ^minahlenefs thereof unto the People j and we

* doubt not but every good Chriftian, as foon as

* he (hall hear the Scope and Contents of it, will,
6 together with us, deteft the horrid Blafphemy
e therein aflerted ; and acknowledge the godly Zeal,
*. Wifdom, and Juftice of that Authority, in com-

* manding it, as an execrable Thing, to be taken
' away, that it may not remain amongft us to pro-
' voke God's Wrath, and produce fuch perilous
^ and pernicious Fruits, whereby the Souls of many

* may be corrupted to their everlafting Deftru&ion :

* For whereas that moft vile and blafphemous
' Aflertion, whereby God is avowed to be the
' Author of Sin, hath hitherto, by the genera^
' Confent of Chriftian Teachers and Writers, both,

* ancient and modern, and thefe as well Papifts as

* Proteftants, been not only difclaimed, but even

* detefted and abhorred j yet, in this Book, }t is

* not loofely intimated, or occafionally hinted, or
' inconfiderately or through Inadvertency Humbled

* upon, but openly and in exprefs Terms, and in,

* a very foul Manner, propounded and maintained
4 purpofely at large, and profecuted, in the fol-
4 lowing raflages, viz.

Page 35. That God is the Autbgr of, and hath an.
Hand in^ the Sinfulnefs of his People.

Page 36. That he is the Author^ not of tbofa
alone in ivhich Sin /j, but of thc
B 4

Parliamentary HISTORY

An. it Car. I. Pravity of Ataxy, Anomy, Irregularity, and Sinful
l64S- nefs itfelj which is in them.

Page 37. That God hath more Hand in Metis
Sinfulnejs than they themfelves.

Page 38. That the Creature's Sin doth produce th*
greateft Good, either in God's Glory or in the Crea-
ture* s Happinefs, as the next Caufe thereof-, and that
all that Good is only brought about by Sin.

Page 39. That it is as incongruous and inconve-
nient to make God the Author of the Afflictions of hit
Creatures as of their Sins.

Page 48, That by Sin Believers ere as much
nurtured and fitted fir Heaven as by any thing
fife.

Page 49. That God Jits E Ji ever s for his Service
in this World by leading them into Sin.

Page 52. That no Courfe is fo ready to remove or
prevent Jinful or pernicious Trouble for Sin, as this
looking upon God as the Author of it, and the Good
which he brings about by it ; ' which, becaufe it is
rarely done by Believers, and indeed hardly
known, he therefore profefTethi to have enlarged
himfelf upon it, and in thefp and many other
like Terms hath fet forth this blafphemous Do.c-
trine: And further, he condemned! our Orthodox
Writers, for that they have only grafted, that
God is willing Sin fttould be, and that he per-
mits it, and orders Circumftances about its Pro-
duction, and over-rules it, and hath an Hand in
it, and is the Author of the phyfical or moral
Act in and with which Sin is j faying, That they
have herein erred on the other Hand, and made
Sin mere of the Creature and itfelf lefs from God
than it is.

* Befides, the main Scope of the Book is to
perfuade Men not to be opprefled or perplexed
in Heart by any thing whatfoever that befalls
them, either in Sin or Affliction, as if our Sa-
viour, when he faith. Let not your Hearts be
troubled, (for that is the Ground upon which he
builds) had intended to dehort his Difdples froir^

of ENGLAND. 25

being troubled for their Sins : Very great is both An. 21 Car. I
the Danger and Scandal which would from fuch k _'-_ ' ^
a. deteftable Portion as this arife, if it (hould be j^
fuffered, without Controul, to be publiftied and
difperfed abroad ; efpecially in fuch a Time as
this, when, on the one Hand, Multitudes make
ufe of the fpecious Name of Liberty for a Cloak
of Naughtinefs, and of admitting and profefijng
many perverfe and corrupt Opinions, exceeding
contrary to theGofpel of Chrift and to the Power
of Godlinefs; and, on the other Hand, many
watch for our Halting, and glory in nothing
more againft us, than in thofe Advantages which
the Weaknefs and Inftability of fuch as are car-
ried about with every Wind of Doctrine, and
are not fettle.d and rooted in the Truth, doth
moft unhappily minifter unto them ; to the un-
fpeakable Prejudice of the Church of Chrift, and
obftru&ing that blefled Jleformation, which is,
by all good Men, fo earneftly defired.
' Exceeding dangerous it is unto the Souls of
Men, both as a Means to inftill into them Blaf-
pheinies and impure Conceits of the Majefty of
our moft holy God, as alfo by working them to
a flighting or difregarding of Sin, and confe-
quenily letting loQle the Reins to all corrupt and
licentious Living ; for by how much the lefs
the Trouble is after Sin committed, by fo much
the greater ufualjy is the Bolclnefs of the Com-
mifiion of it ; and, by the Scandal hence arifing,
is every whit as great in regard of the Of-
fence which is hereby given unto the Reformed
Churches ; who, in their public Confcffions,
make Satan and Man himfelf the only Caufes
and Authors pf Sin ; and fome of them do, in
thofe -Confeflions, by Name damn this wicked
Pofition ; and alfo in regard of the great Advan-
tages that it gives our common Adverfaiy the
Papifts, who have hitherto, calumnioufly only,
charged the Do£trine of the Reformed Churches
with fo odious a Crime j in the mean Time con-

tfhe Parfiamentary H r s T o R v

< fefiine;, that we do, in Words, deny it, as well u*
they themfelves ; Whereas, fhould this Book be
tolerated, they might justly infult over us, and
publifh to the World, that now, in the Church

< of England, it was openly and impurely rhain-
c tained, That God is the Author of Sin j than
' which there is not any one Point whereby they
4 labour, in their Sermons and popular Orations,
' to caft a greater Odium, tho' moft injufioufiy,
^ upon the Reformed Churches.

' Aild albeit the Perforr named to be th& Au-

* thor of this Book hath been of good Eftirhation

* for Learning and Piety jj yet, if any too
« deeply wound the Hbribur and Truth of God,

* we ought riot ^t all to be by any fuch Confi-

* deration with-held from decla^ng our juft De-
' teftation of fo odious a Book j for arty Man?

* yea, if ah Angel from Heaven preach any thing

* contrary to theGofpclofCbrift^ the Appftle is not

* afraid to pronounce him accurfed; and indeed

* it is a very dangerous Thing, and fo much the

* more dangerous by how much the more ordi-
' nary and ufual, to take up new and corrupt

* Opinions upon Truft only, on this Inducement,

* a Perfuafion which we have of the Sanctity of

* thofe Perfons which are the Authors of them ;

* for we ought to try the Spirits whether they be of
' God, and to fearch the Scriptures whether the Things
f taught us be Jo or no ; and having tried all Thing .t,
' to hcldjajl that which is good ; and, upon no Pre-

* tence whatfover, to depart from the Form of
' found Words delivered unto us in the Scriptures j

* or, for the Reverence or Eftimation of any

* Man's Perfon, to entertain any fuch Opinions
' as do, in the very Words of them, afperfe the
« Honour and Holinefs of God, and are by all the
? Churches of Chrift rejected ; and therefore moi'l:
' juftly hath Authority appointed Execution to be
^ done in this Manner upon this Book.

HENRY ROBOROUGH, i c .,
ADONIRAM BYFIELD, j ^

Tltc

of E N G L A N D. 27

The King's younger Children had been kept at A«- aiCar. I.
St.- Janes' s Palace ever fmce his Majefty left Lm- , l6*5' t
'don^ under the Care and Dire&ion of fuch Offi- jpi
ccrs, Chaplains, and Servants as the Parliament
thought fit to put over them : And about this Time
it was, that the Earl of Northumberland and his
Lady were intruded with the Care of their Main-
tenance and Education, and had a Penfion of
3000 /. a Year allowed them for that Service.
This was given the Earl, as the Ordinance expref-
fes, in Recompence of the great LofTes he had
fuflained, during this War, in the feveral Eftates The Parliament
belonging to that great and opulent Earldom. a^gn 5000 /. per.

Soon after, the Parliament affigned 5000 /. a t^ning02^3"1'
Year for the Support and Maintenance of the King's younger
Royal Children, and their Family, in an honour- Children,
able Way.

July 24. The Houfes were informed that Bridge- Bridgewater an«
water was taken, with 2000 Prifoners, 800 Horfe, Pontfrete fbrren.
and 36 Pieces of Cannon : Alfo that Pontfrete- iS^SSH
Caftle was furrendered to their Forces. The
Stewardfhip of which, an Appendage to the Duchy
of Lancajler^ was given to the Lord Fairfax^ and
the Government of the Caftle to his Son the Ge-
neral. The Attack and Storm of Bridgewater is
beft exprefled in this General's own Letter.

For the Right Honourable the Lord GREY of
Wark, Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS pro
Tempore.

My Lord,,

TDifpaiched hence, Yefterday> Letters to the Cent-
•4 mittees of both Kingdoms^ which gave fame Ac-
count of God's Buffing upon our Endeavours in the
Sior?n of Bridgewater. On Monday Morning loft
•ive gained that Part of the Town which lies on this
Side of the River ; and therein above 6co Prifoner^
divers Ojpcers of Qicality, and tiuo Pieces of Ord-
nance. The Enemy .fired that Part of the Town %vbcre-
in we ivtrt, immediately after cur Entrance, which

continued

±8 The Parliamentary HISTORY

>. IT Car. 1. continued all that Day and the next Night, burning
l64S- j down all the Houfes, except two or three. Yejlerdaj,
»uh perceiving an objiinate Refolution in the Enemy not to
yield the Town, I was forced to ufe thofe Extremities
for the Reducing of it, which brought them imme-
diately to a Parley, and, in Jhort, to yield the Town
upon no other Terms than bare Quarter. We entered
' the Town this Day, finding great Stores of Arms and
Ammunition, 36 Pieces of Ordnance, above IOOO
Prifoners, amongjt them divers Perfens of great
Duality, whereof Mr. Peters can give you an Account.
J have difpofed of the Command of the Town, for the
prefent, to Colonel Birch, wherein I doubt not of
your Lordjhips and the Houfe of Commons Approba-
tion. I remain,

My Lord,

Your Lord&ip's

moft humble Servant,
THOMAS FAIRFAX.

July 28. A long Letter from Qerteral Lejley
was read, giving an Account of the ftorming and
taking the Houfe or Caftle of Cannon- Froame, in
Tfce Sotcefs of Hereford/hire, by the Scots j with many Complaints
^v^^Aa.^1 m 'c °f w?nt of Provifiorj and Carriages for their
Army, which the Country wer^e urvwilling to get
them^ and the Parliament's Commiflioners in thofe
Parts did not aflift them with. The Lords ordered,
That this Matter be taken into Confideration.
But the Houfe of Commons voted a. Jewel of 50O/.
Price to be prefented to this General^ who was
Brother to. the Earl of Lcven, for this and other
g<5od Services to the Parliament.

The InJlrucJiom agreed upon by Confent of-
Parliament, for Commiflioners to be font to refide
in the Scots Army, for the better carrying on of the
War, and jniunging the Affairs of that Army^
were tivefc :

*f ENGLAND. 29

INSTRUCTIONS for (c ) , and Edward Lord An. zi Car. f ,

Montagu, Sir John Corbett, Bart. Humphrey t l645' ,
Sallwey, Efq; Colonel William Purefoy, and Ed- ~TJ£"~^
ward Baynton, Efq\

* IT7HEREAS, by feveral Treaties agreed be- inftruflions for

* W tween the two Kingdoms, divers Things theEngiuhOom-
< are to be performed and done by the joint Advice jSSTtolSde
' of both Kingdoms, or their Committees there- with that Army.
•4 unto authorized, which cannot be fo well tranf-

* afted but by thofe upon the Place : You, or any
« three of you, have therefore hereby full Power

* and Authority given you to go to the Scots Army

* now in England; and to advife, debate, and con-

* elude, with our Brethren of Scotland, or fuch as

* (hall be authorized by them thereunto ; and, by

* joint Advice with them, to put in Execution all
c iuch Matters and Things concerning the well
4 Ordering, Directing, and Difpofal of the Forces

* brought in and employed by them for our Affift-
*" ance, as (hall be found requifite and n,eedful,

* from Time to Time, for the Profecution of this

* Caufe, and the Ends exprefled in the Covenant.

4 You {hall do your utmoft Endeavour that the

* Enemy be vigoroufly profecuted, and all Advan-

* tages taken, for the fpeedy Ending of this War.
' You are to do your utmoft Endeavours for the

% continuing a good Correfpondency between the

* two Kingdoms, and their Forces.

' You are to acquaint them with the great

* Straits we are in for want of Money j and that

* whatfoever Failing of Payments, according to the
c Treaty, have been from hence, have not proceed-

* ed from any Want of Affection, or Intention to

* make good our Engagements.

c You are to Acquaint them, That a weekly Af-

* feflment is made for the Maintenance of their

* Army ; and that Care is taken for the fpeedy

* Payment thereof.

c That there may be no Want of Provifions,

* and other NecclTaries, tor the Army, you are

* hereby

(<) Dtcft in Orig .

ParKamcrithrf ' Hi s T"O R Y

hereby authorized to fendf Warrants, under the
Hands of you* or any tbrco of you,, to the Coun-
ties of Hereford, Mmtmuth) Worcefter^ Glamor -
' gan^ or any other Counties where the Serfs Ar-
' mies {hall march, or adjacent Counties, as you

* {hall think fit, for trie furnifhing Provifions_, and
' other Necefories, for that Army.

' And' you are to call, to your Afliftahce, and to

* name and authorize, fuch Gentlemen and others

* in the aforefaid Counties, and fuch other Coun-
«• ties where that Army {hall march, as you {hall
' think fit, to be fuch Committees for the better
' putting of this Inftruftion in due Execution : And
' the Committees in the faid feveral Counties are

* hereby required to be, from Time to Time, aid-
c ing arid affifring to you herein.

' You are to endeavour, That all Provisions, or
e other Neceflaries, provided by your Care, be.fo

* ordered, that Account may be made what is

* taken ; and that the faid Provifions may be dif*

* counted upon the Pay of the faid Army.

' You are hereby likewife authorized, as you

* may fee Caufe, to help the Scots Army with Re-

* cruits of fuch Horfes, upon Account, as {hall be
' loft in the Service.

' You are to take Care that no Protection be
4 granted to any Delinquent, contrary to the Or-

* > dinance of Parliament.

' You are further to take Care that the feveral
£ Ordinances be put in due Execution againft all

* Delinquents, notwithftanding any Protection

* whatfoever.

' You are to acquaint both Houfes with your"

* Proceedings from Time to Time; and to obferve

* thefe InjiruRions.^ and fuch further Directions
' as you {hall receive from both Houfes of Parlia-
' meht.'

The Houfes had been alfo a long Time in fram-«

ing Inftruftinns for a Committee to go into Scat-

landy to regulate fuch Matters with the Parlia-

&. • • • » ' ment

of ENGLAND* 3?

tnent there, as were then neceflary to be done. An. 21 car. I.
All which are contained in the following Articles : V_J^5' ^

July

I. < XT O U fhall forthwith repair into the King-

< * dom of SwriW; and you $ft| make J^SLlE
' your AddrefTes to the Parliament there, or any fioners appointed

* deputed by them as {hall have Power and Autho- *? e° to thc Par"

* rity to treat with you, upon fuch Matters as you i*n^ent
'* have received, or fhall receive, in Charge ; arid

* to negotiate in that Kingdom as Committees or

* Commiffioners of, and from the Parliament of

* England: And, having performed the Things

* wherewith you are intrufted, you are to return
c and repair to the Parliament of England^ to render

* an Account of your Employment.

* II. '. You are to let them know the twpHoufes

* good Acceptance of that brotherly Affiftance they
*• have received from that Kingdom ; and return

* them Thanks.

III. ' You are to let thern knovp, That a good

* and mutual Ccrrefpcndency between the two

* Kingdoms, 'united in, this great Caufe by Soletrm

* League and Covenant > is very earneflrlv defied by
' bothi Houies : And you are, to that Purpofe, to'
4 ufe your beft Endeavours for the continuing

* thereof; and to give the beft Satisfaction you
' can, in all Things that may feein to have, given

* any Occafion of Diiteroace j and to defcre thi

* like from them :

IV. ' To acquaint th,eri]L with the great Strait*

* we are in for Want of Money ; and that what-

* fqeyer Payments from hence have nqt been made,

* rn purfuance of the Treaty, it hath not proceeded

* from any Want of Affection, or Want of Inten-

* don to make good our Engagements.

V. c You fhall propofe, That thc Works about

* Carlijk may be flighted, and the Place dii-

* mantled; and that die Scots Garrifon, now ill

* Carlijle^ put in there without the Content of th«
" Parliament of England^ be forthwith removed,,

* in purfuance of the large Trgat} of both King-
c doms,

VI. * You

3 2 jffe TdrKdmentaty H i s' T 6" R Y

An. 21 Car. I. VI. « You fhall demand that the feveral "Garri-

J^ , ' {on$mlPar*worthCafilB97inm8Utb Caftle, New-

upon Tyne, Hartlepoole, Stockton Caftle,
' and Thirlewatt Caftle, may be removed ; being

* placed there without the Confent of both Houles

* of the Parliament of England, or their Com-

* mittees.

VII. « You fhall irifift upon it, That all Pro-

* te&ions already given to the Perfons, Goods, or

* Eftates, of any Delinquents, without the Con-

* fent Of the Parliament of England, or their Com-

* miffioners, be limited to their juft Intentions ;

* which is, only for reftraining of the Soldiers from

* all A6b of Violence againft the Perlons fo pro-
' te&ed j and not extended to the Prejudice of any

* Ordinance of Parliament, or Ordef of both or* ei-

* ther Houfe of Parliament : And that no Protec-
' tions be granted, or Capitulations made, without
4 the Confent of the Parliament of England, or

* their Committees : And that, if any Protections
' have or fhall be granted or made otherwife,

* they fhall be held void and null.

VIII. « That a Commiflion be granted under

< the Great Seal, as in 1641, for the taking and

* adjufting the Accompts of Yorkjhire, . of the City

* and County of the City of York, Northumberland,

* the Borough of Berwick uponTweed, Cumberland,
' Weftmortland, the County of Durham, and County

* of Newcaftle, between the Scots Army and the
' faid feveral Counties, ariflng either byAfleflments,

* Free-Quarter, Billeting, or any other Way. You

* (hall offer to the Parliament of Scotland, or their

< Committees, that they may fend fome Commif-

* fioners, if they pleafe, to be prefent at the adjuft-

* ing of the Accompts in the feveral Counties
c above-mentioned,

IX. « You fhall take Care that all the Articles

* of the feveral Treaties between the two King-
c doms be obferved and kept,

X. ' You (hall reprefent to the Parliament of

* Scotland, or their Committees or Commiffioners
' in that Behalf, all Oppreffions, Wrongs, and In-

' juries,

of ENGLAND.

' juries, offered contrary to the faid Articles ; and

* defire fuch Remedy as to Juftice mall appertain.'
The Names of thefe Commiffioners were John

Earl of Rutland, Philip Lord Wharton, Sir Henry
Fane, Sir William Jlrmyn, Thomas Hatcher, and
Robert Goodwin, Efqrs.

July 29. The Earl of Northumberland presented
a Paper from the Scots Commiffioners refiding in
London, bearing Date the Day before.

* OAVING now feen and perufed the divers The Scots Com-
' • Letters and Papers, of great Importance, miflioners <k-fire
« mentioned in the Anfwer of the Honourable 5*p^^°£

* Houfes of Parliament to our Paper of the 2Oth of feat to the King.

* "June, which may give Light to the future Pro-

* ceedings of both Kingdoms; having alfo obferved

* the good Succefs of the Parliament's Forces fince

* that Time, whereby the King and his Armies

* are brought to a much lower Condition, which,

* in Divine Providence, may be a further Prepara-

* tien to a happy Peace ; and having alfo Reafon,

* from what we have learned in Time paft, to ap-
4 prehend that Men will not be at Reft, but ftill be

* dealing under-hand, and tampering for a Peace
' of their own making, and for their own private

* Ends, to the great Prejudice of the Public, and
' the further alienating of the King's Heart from a
« fafe and well-grounded Peace, and the delaying

* of the Intentions of both Kingdoms ; we do, in
' all Earneftnefs, defire, upon the Grounds and
' Confiderations prefented in our former Paper, to
' know the Minds and Relblutions of both Houfes

* in a Matter of fo great Confequence, as is the
« renewing the Defires and Propofitions-of Peace,

* in fuch Manner as mail be thought rit, that we
< may make the fame known to the Parliament of

* Scotland, now fitting, v/hich may expect no Isfs

* from our Trufr and Diligence.

By Command of the Commilfioners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland. JOHN CHIESLE V.
This Paper was ordered to be communicated to
the Commons.

VOL. XIV, C A Com-

The Parliamentary HISTORY

A Committee had fat a long Time on the Lord
__ Dtgby's Letter and Lord Saville's Bufmefs ; but not

Auguft. having yet got Matter enough to report it to the
HoufeS) they now feemed to be tired of the Pur-
fuit, for the Earl of EJJex acquainted the Lords
this Day, That feveral of the Committee being
gone or going out of Town, the reft thought fit to
adjourn for five Weeks ; which was agreed to.

Auguft,. There are very few Matters in the Be-
ginning of this Month, in fat Journals, worth our
Notice ; except we mention that Colonel John Lil-
burn was now firft taken Notice of, for publiftiing
a Pamphlet reflecting on the Juftice of the Parlia-
ment, and afperfing feveral Members of the Houfe
of Commons. A Man whom we (hall have fur-
ther Occafion to mention in the Sequel j but he
was ordered to be tried at the next Quarter Sef-
fions for this Offence.

A Conference JUgt Ir. A Conference was held between the
Houfe, onthat two Houfes> on the Subject of the laft Scots Paper
Occafion. about Peace ; the Report of which made to the

Lords was, That the Houfe of Commons had
taken it into Confideration, and had refolved, that
the good Condition the Parliament were now in,
ihould not make them further off from defiring a
fafe and well-grounded Peace. But becaufe there
had been fuch ill Succefs in the Manner of the late
Treaties, they had made certain Votes to which
they defired their Lordfhips Concurrence.

1. ' That in fuch Propofitions as fhould be next
fent to his Majefty, for a fafe and well-grounded
Peace, a pofitive Anfwer fhall be defired from
himfelf, without any Treaty.

2. ' That Propofitions fhall be fent to his Ma-
jefty for a fafe and well-grounded Peace.

3. ' That fuch Defires as (hall now be made to
his Majefty for Peace, on Behalf of England or
Ireland, fliall be prefented in Bills to him.

4. ' That thefe Votes may be communicated to
the Scots Commiffioners, and be treated on by the

Committee.

of E N G L A N D. 35

Committee of both Kingdoms' To all which An. 21 Car. r.

Votes the Lords conferred. . t l6*s' ,

Augult.

Aug. 12. Cromwell, by an Ordinance of Parlia-
ment, continued General of the Horfe for four
Months longer.

Aug. 15. Some Letters from the Scots Army ly-
ing before Hereford are entered, this Day, in the
Lords Journals ; together with two Papers from
their Commifiioners, the one relating to the Dif-
trefles of their Army, the other concerning the laft
Votes for Peace. And firft,

A Letter to the Committee of both Kingdoms
at Derby-houfe :

My Lords and Gentlemen,

TTfE have received your Letter of the firft ^Letters from the
f* Auguft,. and have, according to your Defere,
fent a Party into Northampton ; but mujl acquaint
you that we cannot conveniently hereafter, upon the
like Occajions, fend Parties fo far from us ; and
therefore do dejire that Order may be taken there for
eafing us offuch long Convoys.

Upsn Advertiftment of the King's pajjing the Severn,
and being the length of Wolverhampton, ws conceived
it very necefjary, for preventing further Inconveniences ,
that a Party Jhould be fent from this Army to attend their
Motion ; wherefore his. Excellency, the Lord-General,
hath iffiied his Orders accordingly, and there are now .
eight Regiments of Horfe, one Regiment of Dragoons,
and 500 commanded Mujqueteers mounted, upon their
March in Purfuit of thofe Forces. The reft of the
Army are Jt ill making their Approaches to this Place,
which is in a good Forwardnefs, whereof we an hope-
ful to give you a good Account Jhortly.

Signed in the Name of the Committee of botk
Kiadoms rending with the Army, by

Your affectionate Friends and Servants,
From the Camp before Here- • LOTHIAN,

f«r<tt 4*f# u, ^645. J. CORBET.

C 2 Next

3 6 'The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. Next was read a Letter to the Scots Commif*
l64s> t fioners.

Auguft.

Right Honourable,

CTHE public Letter to the Committee of both King-'
-*• doms will acquaint you, that we have fent a Party
of Horfe and Dragoons after the King. The Gentle*
men of Glamorganftiire, Monmouthfhire, and
Brecknockfhire, have fent fame of their Number to
the General, to ajfure us that they will rife in Arms
for the Parliament* The Condition of our Army, as
we have often reprefented, is extreme hard ; the
common Soldiers begin to be fick with eating of Fruit ;
we have now fent away almojl all our Horfe, fo that
we want their Ajji/lance to bring in Prifoners ; and
therefore we defire you to life all poffible Diligence in
hajlening down to us what Monies are come into the
Committees of Goldfmiths-Hall j which, if it Jhall
Hpt come in good Proportion, we are afraid to think
what Jhall be the Condition of this Army. We ajjure
ourfelves of your Care herein, and that you will hajfan
to us more Ammunition ; we have fent a Copy of the
Paper given in by us to the Englifh Commijfioners^
and remain

Your Lordfhips,

From the League before Here* ^ . _ .

/»«/, Auguft 12, 1645. affedhonate * nend,

LOTHIAN, J. P. D.

Then the following Remonjirance, fetting forth
the Diftrefs of the Scots Army, prefented from their
Commiffioners, was read :

A Rermmftrante < *TpHE preffing Neceffities of the Scots: Army do
* _*. inforce us to reprefent, by your Lordfhips
and thefe Gentlemen, to the Honourable Houfes
of Parliament, that, notwithftanding the whole
four Months of the Ordinance be long fince ex-
pired, there is but a very fmall and inconfider-
able Proportion of Money, aflefled upon the feve-
fal Counties for Entertainment of that Army, as

' yet

ting forth the
Putrefies of that

Army,

Sf ENGLAND. 37

c vet come in to the Committee of Goldfmiths- An- 21 Car-

* 'Hall, for Repayment of the Month's Pay ad- t l6*5'
4 vanced by the City of London, and for fatisfying

6 the Neceffities of that Army, which is reduced
6 to that Extremity in the prefent Service wherein
6 they are engaged, that, without Peafe, Apples,
' and green Wheat they gather from the Ground,

* they are not able to fubfift : Some of the Coun-
c ties, as Lincoln and Rutland, defire to be excu-

* fed, and pretend their Inability to afford any Pro-

* portion of the Money aflefled upon them for that

* Army, and little or none comes in from the reft
f of the Counties. It is above a Twelvemonth
' fince a Month's Pay was ordered by the Houfe to
' be paid to the Scots Army, out of the Fines and

* Compofitions for Delinquents Eftates, immedi-
' diately after the Battle of Lang Marfton ; a good'

* Proportion thereof is yet due, the Payment of
' which is obftru&ed by feveral Orders procured
•' from the Houfe, for Payments of Monies for other
' Ufes, out of thofe Fines and Compofition. Our

* earneft Defire to the Honourable Houfe is, That

* fome fpeedy and effectual Courfe be taken for
' bringing in of the Monies due by the Counties,
' for four Months paft : That the Ordinance may
' fpeedily be renewed : That the Houfe will be

* pleafed to appoint the Committee of Goldfmitbs-

* Hall) firft to pay the Remainder of that Month's

* Pay, voted after the Battle of Long Marfton, out
' of the Fines and Compofitions for Delinquents
' Eftates, notwithftanding any fubfequent Orders j

* and to the End the Committee of Goldfmiths.-

* Hall may be inabled for the fpeedy Payment
' thereof, and other incident Charges, that the
4 Houfe would call for their Reports concerning

* thofe Fines, wherein they can proceed no further
« without the Approbation of the Houfes.'

By Command of the ConimJJfuncrs for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

, i64S. J O H N C H I E SL E Y.

C 3 La%

3 8 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2 1 Car. T. Laftiy a Paper from the faid Commiffioners,
concerning Proportions for Peace.

Auguft.

Anther relating
tothelatePropo-
fiuoDS for Peace.

HAVING received from your Lordfhips
ibme fries of the Honourable Houfes, con-
cerning the Proportions for Peace ; and, after
lome conference thereupon, being defired by
your Lordflaips to give our Anfwer in Waiting,
we hereby prefent our Thoughts, and do rffer it
to your Lordfhips Confideration, Wether it were
not fit to fhun all Occafions of Delay in fending
the Proportions of Peace to the King, left there-
by we neglect the Improvement of fo feafonable
an Opportunity of obtaining Peace, as we have
expreiled in our former Papers ; that, to this End,
we are rnoft ready prefently to concur with the
Honourable Houfes, for fending to his Majefty
the Propo/itions, either all or fome, as they have
been already agreed upon in the Parliaments of
both Kingdoms, for Matter and Manner.
* That, until we underftand what Proportions
are intended by the Votes of the Houfes to be next
fent, we cannot give a clear Jlnfiver concerning
the Manner ; that if the Proportions prefented at
Uxbridge be underftood, with any other of thofe
already agreed upon by both Kingdoms, which,
upon mutual Debate, mall be judged moft necef-
fary for the Peace of both Kingdoms to be now
fent, we {hall be ready to concur with the Ho-
nourable Houfes, to denre a pofitive Anfiuer there-
to from his Majefty without any Treaty.
' But irt cafe any new Proportions of Peace be
thereby underftocd, or any material Additions to
or Alterations of the former Propofitions^ we fhall
be necefiituted to fend thefe to the Kingdom of,
Scotland^ to be there confidered and approved, as
all the former were : And as it is evident that we
are not the Caufe of this Delay, fo, that no Pre-
judice may thereby arife to the Public, we defire,
in the Interim, that thofc already agreed upon by
both Kingdoms (which at the Time were thought

tf E N G L A N D. 39

c fufficient) may be prefented to his Majefty with An< 2J Car>
« all convenient Speed. t * tv

< Concerning the third Refolve of the Houfes, for Auguft.
« prefenting their Defires, by Bill to his Majefty ;
4 if the Meaning be to fend the Propojltiom that are
' already agreed upon by the Parliaments of both

* Kingdoms, and to feek the King's Majefty's pofi-
' tive Anfwer thereunto, and together therewith to
' prefent Bills conformable to thofe Propofitions^

* for the more legal fecuring of this Kingdom in the
' King's Grant of thefe Propofitions ; although we
4 think it more fafe and convenient for both King-

* doms, that the Security of both (hould proceed

* Hand in Hand, and, fimul et femel, be perfected

* and confummated ; yet if3 the Honourable Houfes
« fhall infift upon the fending fuch Bills with the

* Propofitions^ we are fo far from giving any Occa-
' fion of Delay, (for which we are by fome unjuftly
'. blamed) that we will be ready to concur ; the
' Kingdom of England fecuring us, as they did in

* the large Treaty ', both in relation to the King and
<• in relation to themfelves, as we are bound to do

* the like to them ; and, withal, we defire, That;

* if thefe Bills be not ready, the fending of the

* Propofitions may not be delayed ; the Grant

* whereof by his Majefty will be an Engagement,

* and make Way for his Aflent to the Bills : But

* if the Meaning be to fend Bills without fending the

* Proportions agreed upon by both Parliaments, or

* without defiring the King's Anfwer thereunto,
c then we (hall be neceffitated to know the Pleafure
' of the Parliament of Scotland concerning this new

* Way, before we can join in it ; and in the mean

* Time defjre the Honourable Houfes to take into

* their ferious Confideration, That the former Way

* agreed upon by both Kingdoms is laid afide, and
« that this new Way of fending Bills without Pro-
4 pofitions was not thought neceflary in any former
' Addrefs to his Majefty for Peace j neither was it

* propofed to us, or communicated to the ParliaT

* men.t of Scotland^ which is nov? adjourned, fo

' tlu;

40 ¥ke Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2.1 Ci*. I. < that we cannot communicate the fame unto them

. , * for the prefent : That it is not in the Power of

July. ' any Commiffioners from a Parliament to form the
' Proportions into Bills or Afts of Parliament, and
? to defire the King's Ratification thereof, before

* fuch Bills or Afts be known or agreed upon by the

* Parliament itfelf ; that the Way of the Propofit

* tions, as they are conceived by both Parliaments,
Ms a joint Way, uniting the Kingdoms in their

* Defires, tying the King to both in his Grants,
' and obliging both to fee thefe performed and pre-

* ferved, each in Favour of the other ; and fo doth

* double the Security, both by way of Law and

* way of Covenant, and aggravates the Violation of

* any Article as the Violation of both Law and
' Covenant : Whereas the Way of Bills without
' the Propcfiiicns, is a more dividing Way, both

* of the Defires of the Kingdoms, of the King's
' Anfwers thereunto, and of their Obligations to

* fee the fame performed j and therefore a disjunc-
' tive Way was moft earneftly preffed by the King's

* Commiffioners at Uxbridge, as moft conducible to

* their Ends, and prejudicial to ours, and for that

* Caufe was oppofed by the Ccmmiffioners of both

* Kingdoms.

' That feeing the Parliament of Scotland is not

* prefently fitting, and did know of this Way,
' and th*t we cannot have Power to form Acts of

* Parliament, this were to propofe and fettle the
' Peace of one Kingdom without fettling of the
' other ; which, as it v/ere contrary to the Ccve-

* nant and to the Treaty, fo would it be made Ufe
% * of by our common Adverfaries, to be the Occa-

* fion of ruining the Peace of both j and therefore
4 we rather defire, that the Way already agreed
' upon by both Kingdoms may be obferved, as that

* which will occafion both leaft Delay and leaft
' Danger; efpecially feeing we are willing to crave
' a pofitive Anfwer to the Propofitions without any
e Treaty ; and for the Way of Security, we defire
« that the Way, fo folidly agreed upon by both

* Kingdoms

^ENGLAND. 4t

Kingdoms for cftablifhing of the large Treaty^ An. ai Car. I.
and inferted in the Beginning and Clofe of the '

AcTis of Parliaments of both Kingdoms, in
the Year of God 1641, may be ferioufly con-
fidered, as containing a threefold Security ;
the one of engroffing all the Propojitions* and
pafling them by way of a Law and Acl: of Parlia-
ment ; the other, by way of the King's Cove-
nant and Oath to his People j the third, by the
Parliaments of both Kingdoms giring their full
Aflurance, and making public Faith in the Name
of both Kingdoms refpedlively, for the true and
faithful Obfervance thereof : All which, upon the
King's Grant of the Propo/itions, may be fpeedily
difpatched and fecurely fettled, which is our chiefeft
Defire, for the Good of both Kingdoms.
' And it were earneftly to be wifhed, in a Mat-
ter of fo tender a Nature as the Bufmefs of Peace ,
wherein the mutual Advice and Confent of both
Kingdoms is necefTarily required, that neither
Kingdom fhould engage themfelves without a
previous Debate, efpecially in Alteration of any
Thing formerly agreed upon.
By Command of the Commijjioners for the Parlia^

ment of Scotland.
Aug. H, ,645. JO. C HIES LEY.

The foregoing Papers and Letters were ordered
to be communicated to the Houfe of Commons at
a Conference,

The Parliament began now to think themfelves
fo far out of Danger, as to be lefs affiduous in their
Attendance on Bufmefs, and to fit but two Days in
a Week : For which Reafon we {hall be more con-
cife in our Collections from the Journals for the
future.

Aug. 19. The Lords, on a Petition of the Lord
Saville and Lord Powis, Prifoners in the Tower^ re-
prefenting their miferable Eftate, being deprived
of all they were worth, and nothing left either

42 Tfa Parliamentary HISTORY

Ao ai Cart I. to pay their Keeper's Fees, or pay for their Diet;
the Lords ordered that 7 /. a Week fhould be al-
lowed each of them, out of their own fequeftered
Efiates, for their prefent Maintenance.

The fame Day the AfTembly of Divines prefent-
ed to the Lords a very long Memorial, con-
cerning the Government of their new eftablifhed
Church ; which was to be divided into Congrega-
tional^ ClaJJical^ Provincial^ and National AJJemblies^
to be governed by Elders, &c. with many other
Particulars, all too tedious and prolix for thefe
Inquiries, which we therefore pafs over with a
Reference m.

A Day of public Thankfgiving was ordered to
te b« kePfc for God's Mercies to the Parliament's
jiving Forces in divers Parts of the Kingdom i for the

SaininS of the Towns °f Satk* BriJgnvater, Scar-
broitgh Caftle and Slxrburn Caftle, alfo for the dif-
perfmg of the Club Men, and the good Succefs in
Pemlrokejhire^ &c.

Aug. 23. A Declaration was alfo pafled
the People called Club Men, That all Perfons what-.
The Cfub-men foever, who fhall aflbciate or aflemble themfelves
T**i- together in Arms, in any Parts of the Kingdom,
without Authority of the Parliament, are hereby de-
clared Traytors to the Common-Wealth, and to be
proceeded againft accordingly.

Aug. 2.6. Several Letters from the North were
twyirjseotiand rea<* > one ^rom tne Lord l^harto^ giving fome
«> behalf of the Account of the great Victory the Earl of Montrofs
had gained over the Scots Covenanters, near Glaf-
gowy in Scotland.. Alfo, that the Plague being at
Edinburgh^ the Parliament there had agreed to
fend Commiflioners to treat with the Engitjb at
Berwick. By thefe Letters, Montrofe's Victory is
faid to be complete, and that he was perfect Ma~
fter of the Field in Scotland -y which Opportunity,
if well improved, might have been of vail Advan-

tage
•« Cunnii)iii-.Jwnali of this Month, S? ultra.

cfENGLAND. 43

fage to his Majefty's Service in England, but it did An. ai Car. I.
not fo fall out in the End. ^_.*645'

The moft material Things which happened to-
wards the Clofe of this Month were ; A long Orcli- epwn
nance (b) for eftabliming the new Directory, and
aboliming the Book of Common-Prayer. — *— Ano-
ther for making the Lord Grey of Werk, and
William Lenthall^ Efq; the Speakers of the two
Houfes, Keepers of the Duchy Seal of Lanca-
Jler. Sir Lewis Dives and Mr. Giles Strange-
ways, lately taken Prifoners, being Members of
the Houfe of Commons, were brought to the Bar
of that Houfe, reprimanded feverely by the Speaker,
and afterward committed Prifoners to the Tower ,

for High Treafon. The Lord Saville, on his

humble Petition to the Lords, and the Commons
having nothing to fay againft it, was bailed ; fo
that there feems to be an End of that formidable
Bufmefs.

September. This Month begins with an Order
cf Parliament for appointing a Day of public Hu-
miliation and Prayer, to be humbled for the Mi-
feries of Scotland, and to defire God's Bleffing on
the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, and for ceaf-
ihg of the Plague in the Kingdoms of England and
Scotland.

Sept. 3. More Letters from the Parliament's
Commiflioners at Berwick, intimating, that Scot-
land was in fuch Diftraction, and their Commif-
fioners fo difperfed by the late fad Accident in that
Kingdom^ that they could not, as was defired, meet
at Berwick : That the Scots wanted the Afliftance
of the Englijh Armies and Councils in that Time of
imminent Danger, &c.

At this Time alfo the Parliament in England^* Commons
was in much Diftrefs for raifmg Money to pay ffiEiJS?
their numerous Forces ; and the Commons had Djiinqiunct
fent up an Ordinance for the abfolute Sale of all Eftit«.

Delin-

(A) This, with his Majtfly's Jnftvcr to it, are printed la Rujh*
ivtrtb'i Colitctuni, Vil. VI. p. 205, tt ultra.

ffbe Parliamentary H i s T o R v

Delinquents Eftates ; and, this Day, a Conference
was held between the two Houfes about it j where -r
tne Commons acquainted the Lords with the
Neceflity of raifing great Supplies of Money, and.
Which is put off that there was no other Way of doing it : That
ky the Lords, the Excife was anticipated, his Majefty advanced
towards Briftol^ and the Forces which were march-
ed out of Lincoln/hire could not be kept toge-
ther without Supplies ; and there being no other
Means left to raife any, they delired the Lords to
pafs this Ordinance. The Lords ordered this to be
confidered of the next Day-; and, in the mean
Time, all the abfent Peers in Town to be fuoi--
moned.

Sept. 4. The Lords went upon the laft Bufmefs j
but rinding it a Matter of very great Confequence,
they again referred the further Confederation of it to
the eighth Inftant, and ordered their Houfe to be
called on that Day.

Another Letter from the Lord Wkarton was
read, which we give in its own Words :

For the Right Honourable the Lord G Ji E Y of
Wark, Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS pro
Tempore,

. May it pleafe your Lordfhip,

letter concern- T AT E lajl Night we met with the Lord Lanerk
i^eav'n1 Hef" and Mr. Meldrum, who told us they were ap-
tffort?*™^ *~ pointed by the Lord Chancellor , the Marquis of Ar~
marching into gyle, and the r^/?, to acquaint us how tender they,
-were, left any Prejudice Jhould arife to eur Affairs^
by calling away Lieutenant-General David Lefley ;
from whom they received a Letter that Morning^
from Bawtry, that he had received Orders to come with
his Horfe into Scotland, for Relief of that Kingdom ;
and that if^ upon his coming away, the King's Party
foould pafs into Yorkfhire, and fo North ward ^
it might not only hazard the /polling of thofe Parts*
and getting a (onfiderable Strength there ^ but alfo

tender

of E N G L A N D. 45

render the coming of Lieutenant-General Lefley al- rAn- y Cu-
together ineffectual; and thongh their Necejffities in t * *s'
thefe Parts do injlantly require a Strength of JHorfe September.
and Foot to head the well-affeEled that are under their
Command, and may be raifed; yet, unlefe the King's
Forces be fecured, and a confiderable Strength from the
South and Weft to attend the Kings Motions, they
thought it notfofafe for them or us to have Lieutenant^
General Lefley come away.

They were very earnejl with us that we would repre-
fint their prefent Condition to your further Conjidera-
tion, in Hopes feme fpeedy Courfe may be taken for
their Relief: And we hold it our Duty to acquaint
the Houfe herewith^ becaufe, upon the Receipt ofthoff
Letters from Lieutenant-General David Lefley, the
Lords thought fit to recede from the Opinion they fo
earneJHy preffed the other Day, of which we gave c.n
Account in .our laji Letter of the i6th Current, with
(heir Paper inclofed in it ; and though the Scots
Forces, in the Towns and Caftles in thefe Parts , bejides
Berwick, might make a confiderable Strength if they
were drawn altogether •, yet we do not perceive any
I'Fillingnefs in them, as yet, to make Ufe ofthofe Forces
in that If 'ay.

Your Lordfhip's humble Servant,
Berwick, Anguft 28,

'645- P. WHARTON.

This Letter was ordered to be communicated
to the Houfe of Commons, with this Senfe upon
it, * That the Lords do think n't that ii: be recom-
mended to the Committees fent to the Parliament
of Scotland, that they offer unto the Commiffioners
of the Kingdom of Scotland, the withdrawing of
their Garrilons in the North of England, which
they may employ for the Service of the faid King-
dom of Scotland^ and that our Committees there •
take Care for the fupplying of fuch Garri'fons, as
fliall be fo withdrawn, with a competent Number
of Engli]}) Forces out of the Northern aflbciated
Counties.' -• ' •

46 1%e Parliamentary Jf IST'ORV

An. 2 1 car. f. $ep. 5. The Scats Commiifioners refiding i»
-^ *6*5' , London^ prefented the following Paper to the Houfe

September. ** *X>«fc -

Their Commif- e -TT TPON .feveral Occasions we have reprefent-
-" ' ^^ ed to the Houfes of Parliament the extreme

c Wgnts and Neceffities of the &ofr Army 3 .and
' particularly .of late in z.Pflper of the Seventh of

* Auguft, to which we have received no Anfwer.

•' J-t is fourteen Months fince a Month's Pay was
c ordered by the Houfe of Commons, to be paid to
' the Scots Army out of the Fines and Compofi-
' tions for Delinquents Eftafes, immediately after

* the Battle of Long-Marftan \ a great Proportion
c whereof remains yet due, and cannot be paid, by

* reafon feveral Grde-rs are procured from the Houfe

* in Prejudice thereof, for Payment of Monies for

* other Ufes, out of thofe Fines and Compofitions.

* It is about feven Months fmcethe Houfes of Par-

* liament did pafs an Ordinance^ aflefling the feve-
' ral Counties tov/ards the Entertainment of that

* Army ; of .all which there is only come into the
« Committee of Goldfmiths- flail, atout 7 or 8000 /.

* for the Repayment of the Month's Pay advanced

* by the City of London, which is all that Army re*

* ceived for thefe feven Months paft ; and for the
' Month's Pay ordered by the Houfe upon the

* 1 5th of Angujl^ to be forthwith provided and
6 furnifhed, there is no Appearance of the provid-

* ing thereof till the Houfe give further Order.

* The Houfes of Parliament were alfo pleafed to

* appoint 200 /. per Diemt to be paid towards the

* Maintenance of the Infantry of that Army ;

* which, though it hath been affefled by the Com-
4 miflioners of Parliament, yet hath proved alto*
' gether ineffectual, as they themfelves have cer-

* tified to the Houfe of Commons. We do

* therefore again renew our former Requeft to the
' Houfes, That they would be pleafed to call for
' the Reports of the Committee of Goldfmitbs-Hallt
' concerning thofe Fkies and Compofitions, to
' enable them for fpeedy Payment of the Renuind-

4 «er

/ENGLAND. 47

c der of that Month's Pay voted immediately after AIKS&I c*r.i
4 the Battle of Long-Marion ; and to order no t» 4S* j

* Monies to be paid by that Committee out of thofe September.

* Fines and Compofitions, till it (hall be paid :

* That the Month's Pay ordered by the Houfe

* upon the i5th of Augufl^ to be forthwith provided
' and fent to the Army, may be accordingly furnifli-

* ed ; and that a more effectual Courfe be taken for
' bringing in the Monies, aflefled upon the feveral

* Counties, for Entertainment of that Army.

' We are informed that the Houfes of Parlia-

* ment have now in Consideration the Safe of De-

* linquents Eftates ; and therefore have thought fit
« to put the Honourable Houfes in Mind of the fifth

* Article of the Treaty between the Kingdoms ;
' wherein it is provided, That the Scots Army (hall

* be paid by the Parliament of England, out of the
« Eftates of Papifts, Prelates, Malignants, and their

* Adherents, or otherwife ; and fmce it is clearly

* evident that all other Ways for the Maintenance
« of that Army are failed, we defire that a Stock of

* Credit and Security may be fettled, by Ordinance

* of Parliament, out of the Lands and Eftates of

* Delinquents, for Payment of what is due to the

* Setts Army ; and that the Lands and Eftates of

* Delinquents be engaged for no other Ufe till that

* Army receive Satisfaction, which is now moft

* neceilary, in regard of the great Diftraclions of

* the Kingdom of Scotland ; and we hope the

* Houfes of Parliament will be the more ready to

* fupply them, fince the only Quarrel the Enemy
' doth pretend againft that Kingdom is, the Af-
' fiftance given by them to the Parliament of Eng-
' land'

By Command of the CommiJJloners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

September 4, ,645. JOHN CHIESLEY.

Sep. 8. The Ordinance for 'the Sale of Delin-
quents Eftates was again refumed ; but no more
done in it than referring it to the next Day, and
the Lords then prejent ordered to attend. But

from

48 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. « Car. I. from thence it was put off to a Committee of die
whole Houfe, who were to meet the next Morn-
ing at Nine o'Clock ; yet we hear no more of
this Bufmefs for fome Time, except that the Com-
mons fent up feveral Meflages todefire the Lords to
expedite this Ordinance : But the fame being put off
from Time to Time, we fliall give fome more
Letters from Berwick, which were prefented to the
Houfe of Lords during the Interval.

For the Rt. Hon. the Lord QREY of Warkt.
Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS pro Tempore.

May it pleafe your Lordfhip,

tetter from the T^"£ are V£ fenfiUe of our Stay here near three
.fcnglun C< rnmii- yr __, . • i j • J » . ???/•/•

fioners at Ber- *»**Mi without doing any thing in the Bufmefs

wick to the we have in Charge from you ; notwithftanding we
Houfe of Lords.

continually fe/icited the Committee of EJlates
to have a Meeting with thofe that are appointed by the
the Parliament of Scotland to treat with us, we
cannot as yet obtain it ; and therefore, Yejlerday,
•we wrote a Letter, (whereof I fend your Lordjhips
a Copy inclofed) unto which we have not received any
certain Anfwer, fave, that they told us, they would en~
deavour^ by the beft Means they could, to procure a
Committee to meet with us as fpeedily as might be ; but
could not define any certain Time.

It is confidently reported that Lieutenant-General
Lefley is come en the North Side of Tyne, with
5000 Horfe and Dragoons at the leaft ; and we do
not hear that Montrofe Jlirs with the Body of his
Army from about Hamilton, where he Jlays and af-
fumes a Power to him f elf over that whole Kingdom,
having fvmmoned a Parliament to Jit down at Glaf-
gow the 2.otb of the next Month.

We hear that the Lord Ogilvy, who was lately re-
leafed from Edinburgh, is gone with a Party, of
Horfe into Nithefdale, to raife Forces in thofe Parts.
If it ivould pleafe the Houfes to fend down Arms
and Ammunition to Newcaftle, for the Ufe of the
Northern Counties, (which they are in very great
want ef) they might therehy be enabled to da the Par-

liament

«/ E N G L A N D. 49

iiament fome Service, This being all we have at pre- An 21 -Car. r.
fent to trouble your Lard/hip with, I remain , v *64S* ^

My Lord, September.

Semi*, Sept. 3, Your Lordftiip's

1645.

moft humble Servant,

P. WHARTON.

The Letter* mentioned in the foregoing was as
follows :

To the Rt. Hon. the Lord Marquis of ARGYLE,
the Earls of CRAWFORD and LINDSAY, and
the reft of the Lords, and others of the Com-
mittee of the Eftates of Scotland.

Right Honourable,

did write unto your Lordjhips on Tuefday AnotVertothe
the z6th of laft Month, that a certain Time Committee *f
and Place might be appointed for our Mating with tbe Eftaf^sof
you, but have not received any Anjwer at all con-
cerning tbe Certainty of either ; this is the eighteenth
Day ftnce our Arrival at Berwick, where ivs have
Jiayed at your Defire ; and though thg la ft fad Acci-
dent may have occafioned many Diftrattions amongji
you, and hitherto prevented our meeting, yet we
doubt thofc that fent us to you will think the Time lour
we have been here, without any Progrcfs in their Bufi-
nefs ; and Jince, without a Meeting, our longer Stay
here can be no way uj'eful to you, nor ferviceable to thofe'
that fent us, we have thought qf qdvertiftng them of our
Return, unlefs a fpeedy Time of meeting be appoint fd ;
which we conceive tnayjtand with your Lord/hip's Can-
veniency to be at Berwick, becaufe ofyonrformtr Dtjirt\
for our abiding here. We have Jtfit ys:ir Lord/kip*
Copies of two Letters, in which is included the AV.c'<
we have by the Pojl, andfo remain,

Your Lordfhip's moft humble Servants,
P. WHARTON,
W. ARMYV,

Berwi<k,Sept. », THO. HATCHED,

l645' l

VOL. XIV. D

50 The Parliamentary HISTORY

A". 21 Car. JT. Sept. ii. A Paper from the Scots Commiffion-
v l6*5' , firs was read, the Purpoit of which was, ' That
September ^e ^r^s having defired that they fhould give a
particular Information. f-pf t^e" late unhappy Blow
The Stat?ofthein Scotland, the prcfcnt Condition there, and what
in that \va$ intended to be <^oi>e with the Scots Army be-

Licutenant-General Lejley towards Scotland, have
thought fit to offer to the Confideration of the
Honourable Houfes, whether, upon this extraordi-
nary Occafion, it might not ftand with their Plea-
fure, 7"ha,t the true State of thefe Matters be repre-
fented at a grand Committee of both Houfes ; and,
after a full Underftanding of the State of that King-
dom, Confutation might be taken for their Relief,
to the Advantage of both,'

Ordered, That the Scots Commifiioners mould
be heard, before a Grand Committee of both
Arms and Am- Houfes, the next Morning. And, upon the hearing:

inanition order d ..... 1, , r> • r A T A &

e. of this Matter, a large Proportion of Arms and Am-
munition were agreed to be fent into Scotland^ to
Aipply the Neceflities of the Scots Army there.

A Mcmorialift of thefe Times, whom we have
not before quoted, tells us from his own Know-
ledge, (<?) c That it was at this Time debated,
•whether the King fnould march with his Army into
Scotland ; which had been done, but two things
prevented it : Flrjl^ The Plague was broke out
there, and Multitudes died of it ; which ma/ie
the King backward, and the Men more backward.
Secondly^ The Marquis of Montrofe having routed
a whole Brigade of Lcfley's bed Horfe, and carried
all before him, wrote to his Majefty, that he did
not now want Ailiftance ; but was in Hopes, in a
few Days, to fend a Body of Foot into England
jto his Majefty's Afliftance. This ..Oyer-confi-
.dence of his was his Ruin ; for, on the contrary,
had he earneftly preffed the King to have marched,

and

(<j) Msm'-'srt of a Cnvnlltr ; pT><?'-illy furmfV] to be wrote by
Pommiilary-General I'/ilm-A, afterwards Lord IVilviotS

of E N G.L AND.-

and fallen in- with his Horfe, the King had done
it, and been absolutely Mailer of Scotland in a
Fortnight's Time ; but Montrofe was too confident, September,
and defied them all, till at laft they got their
Forces together, and Lejlcy, with his Forces out of
England, worfted him in two or three Encounters,
and then never left him till they drove him out of

Scotland.

i

Sept. 15. This Day the Lords, after many De»
lays, renamed the Confideration of the Ordinance
for the Sale of Delinquents Eftates ; and, after long
Debate, in a Committee of the whole Houfe, the
Lord Say and Sele reported, That the Senfe of that
Committee was, That a new Ordinance fhould be.
drawn up for the Sale of the Lands and Revenues
belonging to Archbiftiops, Bifhops, Deans, Deans
and Chapters, to be employed for the fame Ends An Ordinance
amd Ufes, mentioned in the Ordinance for the
of Delinquents Eftates; with an Exception of
Jmpropriations and Tythes, belonging to them, as
•were fit to be employed for the Increafe and Main-
tenance of' the Mimftry. And, in this, fuch De-
linquents Eftates ftiould be added, as that Houfe
Jhould think fit. A Committee of feven Lords was
immediately ordered for that Purpofe.

Sept. 1 6. Another Letter from the Lord IPbar-
ton is entered, which carries its own Explanation.

For the Lord GREY of Work, Speaker of th&
Houfe of PEERS pro Tempore, at Weftminjhr.

May it pleafe your Lordfliip,

T N my laft I certified your Lordjhip, that Liente- A Letter frcnk
•^ nant-General Lefley had' come on the North Side the Committee
Tync with 5000 Horfe and Dragoons; be ha^l^r^T^e
fmce faffed the Tweed, and, on Saturday the 6th s'tat'eof Afl*iii
of this Injtant, kept a Rendezvous at Hare-Law, tbcrc.
about three Miles within the Borders of Scotland,
with eight Regiments of Horfe, one of Dragoms,
Come mounted Mufqueteers, and 800 commanded
D 2 Men

ffle Parliamentary HISTORY

Men from Newcaftle, computed in all to be between

5 and 6000. We hear the greatej} Part of them />

j,er> now about Dunfe, and Montrofe is about Ormifton
Wood within two Miles o/"Haddington.

The Earl of Roxborough and L,ord Home wen
JTeJierday, the qtb of this Jnjlant, brought Prisoners
into Berwick upon Sufpicion, or fame Difcovery, of
their holding Intelligence with Montrofe.

We had fever al Meetings on TThurfday and Friday
AT/?, with the Committee of four Lords and Mr.
Robert Meldrum, who were appointed by the Com-
rnittee of Eftates to treat with us ; but upon Difcuf-
Jion of their Powers, it not being found that the}
were enabled to treat, ws could nqt at all pro-
ceed in the Bufmefs we have in Charge from you j
but) at our pitting, their Lordjhips again unani-
moujjy ftjjitred us, that, within two or three Days9
they Jhould have the CommiJJicn from the lajl Par-
liament to the particular Commijjioners appointed t»
treat with us, and a Quorum nf that Number, why
might forthwith enter into a Treaty with us ; iVr
Expectation whereof we have waited unto this Dayy
but as yet hear nothing from them j and have there-
fore thought fit to dtfpatch a Mejjenger on purpofe thfo
Day, to their Lordjhips, again to follicit a prefent
Meeting.

We conceive it necej/ary to put tie ffvufes in mind,
that the Directory and Ordinance for taking away
the Common Prayer be fpeedily fent down into thefe
Northern Counties ; for want of which the Common
Prayer-Book is Jiill made Ufe, in many Places^
and the malignant Party take Advantage thereby to
engage the ^.AJfettion of the People to their wonted
fuperjiitious Observance of //, and negleft of preach-
ing.

We have received Information from Weftm ore-
land, that the Wcll-affeftcd there are much difcou-
ragfd, by the leaving out divers of the mojl hone/1 and
cttlve Committee-men in th.e late Ordinance for the
jiJTodatlon ; which has cccafttncd a Deadnefs and
Interruption of mo ft Bufmefs for the Publick Service
in that ^cunty . The Perjons defired to be added to

thf

^ENGLAND. 53

the Committee there are, Mr. George Benfon, An. at Car. I,
Richard Brifcoej Thomas Sanders, Joan Archer, ^^ l6*$- M
Robert Mofofi, John Garnet, Matthew Atkinfon, Veptember.
and Edward Hinde ; which, on the great ejl Importu-
nity of fomt very wdl-affefted in that County, we
take the Boldhefs to reprefcnt to the Houfe on their
Behalf, becaufc we have perfecJ Information that
they may be very ujeful in that County. This is all
I have to trouble your Lordflrip with at prefent, and
rejl

Your Lordfhips moft humble Servant,

fecrwick, Sept. jo,

'645- P. WHARTON.

This Letter was ordered to be communicated to
the Houfe of Commons, with a Recommendation
that the Directory and Ordinance may be fent as
is deftred ; and that the Perfons named may be
idded to the Committee j and accordingly a Mef-
fage was prefently fent down by Sir Edward Leech
and Mr. Pagei

Sept. 19. The Lettert of this Day give an am*
pie Account of the diftfefied State of the King's
Affairs, both in Scotland and England* The firft
was as follows :

For the Rt. Hon. the Lord GREY of Work)
Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS pro Tempore.

Right Honourable,

r>IR James Hacket this Day came to us from /& Another, relating
*^ Scots Army, and made a Report of a Fight that a Victory obtaia-
lappened between Lieutenant-General Leflev's Forces r^^>nAlhe
tfWMontrofe, at a Place near Selkirk, about
fix Miles from this Town ; where God, of his
great Mercy, appeared mightily for MS. They killed
and took Prifoners 1200 Foot, and put all the Irifh
to the Sword. They charged the Enemy with four
Regiments of Horfe, and fonte tommanded Horfe of
Colonel Middleton's, the reji of their Body being near
them, but not (ngagtd. One Thing was very re-
D 3 Workable,

54 *7^ Parliamentary HISTORY

An. a i Car. I. murkable^ that the Earl of Lanerk (his Regiment

^ 1J4S' , being one of tbofc that charged) took Sir Robert Spotif-

S>s,Heml>er. wood, his SucceJJor, Prifoner, and, in his Pocket, the

Seal the King took from him, fo that he is now pojjefod

of it again. Montrofe is fled towards the Hills

with bis Horfe, and curs in Purfuit of ilrt:. As

more Particulars come to our Hands Ifuall advifeyou9

tindfa reft

^ Your Lordfhip's

Moft humble Servant,

Berwick, Sept. 13,

'645- P. WHAR TON.

Briftol tftkcn hy "The other Letters were from General Fairfax^
Cener4 Fairfa*.^^ an Account of his taking BrijM, and a long
Narrative of the Proceedings therein. This Let-
ter was directed to the Speaker of the Houfe of
Lords ; but is almoft verbatim the fame with ano-
ther Cent from Cromwell, at the fame Time, to the
Speaker of tlie Commons, and is printed in Kuflt-
vjorth, along with the Articles of Rendition (/•).

A Member of the Koufe of Peers having now
bin a lon^ Time under Confinement, for a
Charge of High Treafon from the Commons, the
Lords, this Day, remonftrated to them, by Mef-
i'age, * That they could not, in Juftice, decain him
any longer from his Seat in Parliament, (being
committed July 13, 1644) and therefore ihould
reftore him to it en the 2yth Inftar.t, unlefs they
do receive further Caufe from the Commons to the
contrary.' To which the Commons anfweied,
* That in regard a Member of their Houfe was
out of Town, who had all the Papers relating to
Lord Kunfdon's 'Affair, they defired a Fortnight's
more Time than their Lordlhip's had appointed."
Agreed to.

MorcLcttm £,//. 23. The chief Bufmefs this Day, in tho
Houie ot Lords, was reading of the following Zrf-

ter$.
(k) R*JbuicrtPt Ctliettitni, Vol. VL p. 8#

^ENGLAND. $$

iifs from the North, which their Speaker acquainted An. 21 or. r,

them he had received from the Lord J^harton at v lfc*5' J

Berwick^ with divers Papers inclofed : s '"unibcr<

For the Right Honourable the Lord GREY ot
lVark, Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS pra
Tempore, at IVejlminfter.

May it pleafe your Lordfhip,

If Send you here inclofed the Copy of our Letter, of

the joth of September, to the Committee ofEftates

fff Scotland, with their Anfwer of the i^th, by the

which your Lordjlnp may perceive that there is yet no

certain Time appointed for our Meeting.

We have received a Letter from Sir Wilfrid
Lawfon, of the 10th of this Inftant, by which we
are informed, that, fence the Retreat of the Scots
Rebels from the Confines of Cumberland, the Com-
mittee there have thought ft to difmifs their Regimental -
Forces, and apply themfehes only to the ereSling of
their Proportions of the new Model, which they con-
ceive is all they are able to becir^ or are enabled to
charge upon that County ; unto which we have returned
the inclofed Anfwer, and dejlre that the Pleafure of the
Houfes may be known therein as fpeedily as may be*
Having nothing fife to trouble your Lordflnp with at
prefent, I remain,

Your Lordfhip's

Berwick, Sept. 15,

1645- Moft humble Servant,

•P. WHARTON.

P. S. / wrote on Saturday, by Sir James Hacker,
of the Victory ' our Brethren's Forces had that Day
again/I M mtrofe, near Selkirk. Mr. Roe, wba
was upon the Place, returned to us Yejierday Marning1
end confirms the Relation of that Victory.

D4 The

56 *The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. zt Car. I. The Letter to the Committee of Eftates of Scot'
i _|6**L.' fand> referred to in the above, was as follows :

For the Right Honourable the Lord Marquis of
ARGYLE, the Earls of CRAWFORD and LIND-
SAY, and the reft of the Cornmiflioners of the
tftates of Scotland.

Right Honourable,

did expeff, according to the Difcourfe we bad
with your Lordftjips at cur lajl Meeting, to have
feen the CommiJJion from your Parliament, and a
Quorum ofCoifimijpot.e-s to have treated with us ; but
the Time being now clap fed, and bearing nothing from
your Lord/hips concerning that Matter, we thongbt fit
to difpatch this Extrefs unto you, with our earnejt De~
fires that your Lordfiips would rejolve us what we may
rely on ; the rather, becaufe we under/land our Return
isjhortly expected. He intreat your Lordjbips Anfwer
by this Bearer^ andrejl

Your Honours truly and affe&ionate
Berwick, S pt. 10,

' 645. Friends and Servants,

P. WHARTON,

THO. HATCHER, R. GOODWYN^
H. VANE, W. ARMYN.

The Anfwer of the Committee of the Eftates of

Scotland to die above :

For the Right Honourable the COMMISSIONERS
from the Honourable Houfes of PARLIAMENT
of England, at Berwick.

Right Honourable,

CT*H E Condition of Affairs kath been fuchy and
-* we have been fo much taken up in the Purfuit
cf the Rebels theft fever al Days paji^ that we could
not, without the Lcfs of much Time, find any Lei-
Jure to pttsr.d cur Bufinefi with you. The Lord

has

of E N G L A N D. 57

&TJ now made our Endeavours fo profperous, that we A»' *J Car- '•
are confident the Iffue of this Day will fully make up ^___ ^

for all our Delay ^ and your Patience. September.

If this Gentleman^ the Bearer, had nqt feen and
been an Eye-Ifftnefs of all the Good which God hath
done for us, we would have made you a particular
Account of the feveral PaJ/ages of this Day's Fiftory.
We are fo carneftly and necejfarlly employed about
the Purjult of the Viftory^ and making Dif patches y
that we cannot make a perfett Appointment j but%
God willing^ after good Courfe and Order Jhall be
taken with the Dlfpatches we have In Hund^ it Jhall
bt our Care to attend upon your Honours^ and makt
fame Progrefi in the CommiJJion wherewith you art
intrujled.

We remit to you to make what Ufe of the In-
telligence from the Bearer feems fittejl to you. Ife
Jhall Jiudy nothing more than to Jhew ourfehes

PhiJiphaugh, Sept. 13, Your HonOUIS
1645.

Very aflured Friends

and Servants,

ARGYLE, LAUDERDALE,

CRAWFORD, LANERK,

LINDSAY, BARGENY,

BUCCLEUGH, RUTHERFORD,

YESTER, W, SCOTT,
FORRESTER.

A Better from the Committee of both Houfes
at Berwick.

To our worthy Friends, the COMMISSIONERS of
the County of Cumberland, at Penrith*

Gentlemen,

underftand by Sir Wilfrid Lawfon, that
you have thought fit to difmife your Regimental
Forces. We are of Opinion you might do well ^9
continue them till the Pleafure of the Houfes wert
which, wt belitvt^ will bt within a few

58 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. z i Car. I. Days, becaufe we Jhall acquaint them with it frcrtt
^_ ' **' hence ; and though it hath pie a fed God to drive away
September. ^]e ^t°r^lfr(>m you, at the pref.nt, yet you knoiv not how
foon it may return. We leave to ysur own Confedera-
tion to dt that which is bejl for the Good and Safety of
your Country^ andrejl

Your very loving Friends,
P. WHARTON,
W. ARMYN, H. VANE,

R. GOODWYN, T. HATCHER.

Sept. 26. A very extraordinary Letter, fent from
Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Commiffioners of both
Kingdoms, was read to the Lords, with one inclofed
in it from the Prince of IVales.

For the COMMITTEE of both Kingdoms at Derby-

Houfc.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

A Letter from T 7 1 S Highnefs the Prince of Wales laving fenf
Sir Thomas Fair- •*% me, b\ his Trumpet, this inclofed Letter* which-
feat, enclofing ... a ' /

Parliament^ I thought it my Duty, by your Lordfliips
Means, to acquaint them with it, and not to hinder
the hopeful Bloffpm of your young Peace- Maker ;
(if I may be fo bold, here to term himfo) which may
prove a Flower in 'his Title more glorious and /west to
us than the reft of 'his Ancejhrs, if it pleaje the Lord
to create Peace by him. I foall defire to know your
Ltrdjhips further Pleafure in this, vhicb Jhall be ob-
fervedby

Your Lordfhip- humble Servant,
Bath, Sept. 20,

^45. , O. FAIRFAX.

The Princess Letter was as follows :
For Sir T H c M A s F A i R F AX.

Qne to him from TJTE have fo deep a fanfi \{ ihe prefent Miferies
anj Calamities of this JKh^vm, tb.rt there is
' nothing we more tarns/lly pi ny fcr to Almighty God,

than

••*/ E N G L A N EH

than that be would be pie fifed to rejlore unto it a
happy Peace ; and we JJiould think it a great BlcJJing
*/ God upon us, if we might be fe happy as to
be an Injhunxnt in the advancing of it : And there-
fore we have refolved to fend two of our Council
unto the King, cur Father, with feme fuch Over-
tures as we are hopeful may conduce thereunto ; a,:d
do hereby dcjire you to fend, or procure from tht
Lftrds and Commons ajjembled in Parliament at
Weftminfter, a Safg-Condutf for the Lord Hopton,
end the Lord Colepeper, with twelve Servants, to
go to our Royal Father, and to return to us; and
we- Jhall then manifejl to the World our mojl earnejl
Deferes to Hop this Iffue of Blood, which mujl other-
wife, in a little Time, render this unhappy Land yet
more miserable.

Given at our Court at Exeter this I5th Day of
September 1645.

CHARLES P,

Hereupon it was ordered, That the Prince's which are «•>
Letter and that of Sir Thomas Fairfax be rccom- ferred w th*
mended to the Committee of both Kingdoms, fothKingdwv
and 'to be communicated to the Scots Commif-
lioners ; and that the faid Committee take the
faid Letters into prefent Confideration, and return
their Senfe to both Houfes refpe&ively with all
convenient Speed ; and that the Concurrence of
the Commons be deilred. Thefe Letters were fent
down to that Houfe accordingly.

Sept. 27. More Lett en from the North were read.

for the Lord GREY of Warke, Speaker of the
Houfe of PEERS pro Tempore, at Weftminjler,
Thefe. Hafte, Hafte, Poft Hafte.

P. WHARTON.

it pleafe your Lordfliip, Letters from i&

Have herein fent your Lordjhip Copies of ours •/£%££%>
the i%th to the Lords of Scotland. We know conceming the
not what we could have done more than we have far Scots Commif-
ond ]tt, by their Anfwer, w^no
further

J

60 ¥he Parliamentary HISTORY

An. ii Car. I. further Engagement for the Certainty of the Time 4

t ; than we have divers Times had, which hitherto hath

not fucceeded. This hath occafioned us to go to New-
caftle and the Counties adjacent, there to do the bejl
Service ive may. And we have fent a Difpatch this
Day to the Scots Lords, which IJhallnot netdto repeat ',
becaufe it is here inclofed. Upon thefe Uncertainties
wejland, and frail expeft the Commands of the Houje
concerning our longer Stay or Return, which is all I
have at prefent to trouble you with y and r*/?,

Your Lordfhip's humble Servant,

Berwick, Sept. 22*

»64S. P. WHARTON.

The Letters to the Lords of Scotland, referred to
In the foregoing :

For the Right Honourable the Lord Marquis of
ARGYLE, the Earls of CRAWFORD and LIND-
SAY, and the reft of the Committee of the
Eftates of Scotland.

Right Honourable,

E havey this Day? by an Exprefs from Lon-
don, received the good News of the Lord-
General? s taking Briftol, the Particulars we tranfmit
ttnto your Lordjhips here inclofed^ having likewift a
Canjirmation thereof by other Letters.

We have, thought jit, after fo long Stay here upon
yuir Lordjhips Dejircs, to difpatch this Bearer purpofe-
Jy unto you ; that we may have a fpeedy Meeting with
thofe appointed by the Parliament of Scotland to treat
with us ; otherwife we intend, fame Time this next
Week, to take ourjournies Southward, of which ws
lave thought ft to give your Lordjhips Notice^ andrtjl

Your Lordfliips
Berwick. Sept. jj,

I64S- Truly affectionate Friends,

P. WHARTON.

THO*. HATCHER. H. VANE.

ROBERT GOODWYN.

Right

<"

ef E TJ G L A N D. 61

Right Honourable,, An. »T Car. J.

FTE R fe ^?wy ^r>/£/? 7.^™ and De/im to t 45<_f
^0«r Lordjhips,for a Certainty ofTi me of meeti ng , September
/? /0 many Letters and Pfomijes from you, from
Time to Time, that it jhcidd be within few Days,
u'f had well hoped that feme Day tins Week, which
is the fixth fince our coming hither , we fhoidd have had
a Meeting ; and the rather •, becanfe we gave you
Notice, in our lajl, of our Resolution to take our
yournia .Southwards, if fuch Meeting were not
'fpeedy ; hut, by your Lordjhips AT/?, we find n9
probability of any this Jf^eek, nor any Time after
aligned when, but that it is left as much at large
fl$ ever : This hath occafoned us to repair to New-
caftle and the adjacent Counties, there to do what
Service we can in this Interim ; and we have again
Cent this Mejjcnger to your L,ordjhips, with our earneft
Dejire that you would give us a Meeting here
feme certain Day the next Week, or fooner, if ppf~
ftble_'y according to which Appointment we Jhall not
fail, God willing, at the Day and Hour appointed,
to attend fuch as are authorized by the Parliament
if Scptland to treat and conclude with us : And, in
the mean Time, we defire your Lordjhips to fend us a
Copy of the CommiJJien, granted by the Parliament
of Scotland, upon bfcafton of our being fent to them
from the Parliament of England j winch we defer e
the rather to fee, becaufe vje have Jhewed you our
Commiffion, and for that your Lord/hips wanted
Power at our laJJ Meeting, contrary to your own Ex-
peftations ; and that it then remained doubtful to your
Lord/hips, in whom tie conclusive Power was lodged^
which it behoveth us to know before we enter upon the
Treaty : A$ we Jhall receive Satisfaction from your
Lordjhips as to the Time of Meeting and the Power
of the GommiJJiqn, we Jhall accordingly difpofe of our*
Jehes, andrejl

Bewick, Sept. »», Your Lordfliips

I64S* Trtilv affedtiqnate Friend?,

P. WHARTON.

H. VANE. W. ARMYN.

THO*. HATCHER, ROB'. 'GOODWYN.

Parliamentary HISTORY

Sept. 29. An Account came of a fi^nal Victory1

gained by General Pointz, over the King's Fortes

September. near Chejler^ which runs thus :

•Narrative of Ge- < A Bout the 1 8th of Augujl laft the King, with
^alTyTveVthe* f* about 400 Horfe and Dragoons, advanced
King's Forces ' into Torkjhlre.

««i Cbefter. < The igth, Colonel Rafflier's Horfc came up to
« General Point*.

' The 2ift they joined with the Scots and Che-
c /hire Horfe ; but a Day's Reft the Scots Horfe
' would have.

' The next Day all marched ; but the King got

* by that Means a Day's Retreat before, whom

* General Point*, according to his Order from the

* Committee of both Kingdoms, through many

* Difficulties, purfued above 300 Miles, not reft-

* ing above a Day in any Place ; the Knowledge

* of the King's Advance for the Relief of Chejier

* being the only certain Intelligence he received of
' his Motion, he marched Day and Night to be

* there before him, and took in a ftrong Houfe with

* a Drawbridge, moated, (which ftood in the Way

* of his March and oppofed him) in lefs than an

* Hour's Space.

* After a very hard March all Night, on the

* 25th of this Inftant, in the Morning, his Van-

* Couriers difcovered the Enemy on a Moor, with -

* in two Miles of Chefter, called Rowton-Moor ;

* whereupon immediately he drew into Order, and

* advanced upon him, tho' all his Forces were not

* then come up ; for he fuppofed to take the Ene-

* my at unawares, it being probable they 'could

* have no Intelligence of his being fo near, tho' it

* proved otherwife ; for his Letters, written that

* Night to the Commander within the Out-Lines

* of Cbeftery giving Notice of his Advance, were

* intercepted ; and the Enemy being poflefled of

* the Advantage of Ground, and in Order, con-

* fronted our Van, led by Col. Hugh Bethel, in the

* midft of a Lane betwixt two Moors, covered with

* the armed Men of both Battalions, where was gi-

' ven

of E N G L A N D. 63

* ven n, very fharp and gallant Charge by both Ah. at Car.

* Parties ; for after Piftols~were difcharged at Half- t l6*5'

* Pike's Diftance, they difpured the Matter with September*

* their Swords a Quarter of an Hour, neither yield-

* ing Ground to the other, till at length the Ene-

* my were forced to retreat ; whom our Men pur-

* fuing were re-encountered by a frefh Keferve at
4 the Lane's Mouth, and were difcomfited there, as

* alfo again by another Referve ; but the Enemy,
4 being overpowered in the End, were forced to re-
•4 treat thro' the Lane, uncapable of receiving any

* further Support. Here we had fome Lofs, the

* Enemy purfuing the Lane's End ; but were beaten

* back, for there was Space for our Referves to

* advance. Col. Betbcll and Col. Greaves were

* then fore wounded.

4 After this, the General perceiving thnt the

* Enemy lay upon his Advantage, and only fkir-
4 mimed him with fome flying Parties, while he
' held Correfpondence with his Friends in Chefter
4 Suburbs, whofe Sign was the Difcharge of two

* Pieces of Ordnance when they would ifiue out
c with Horfe and Foot to join with him ; upon
4 thefe appearing the Enemy quitted their Station,

* and the General, with a Party, advanced to take
• * the moft convenient Grounds, giving Command

* to Col. Parfms, Quartcr-Maiier General of the
4 Army, and Col. Sandys, (who performed th«
' Duty of Corn'mifi^ry-General of the Horfe during
4 the aforefaid Mirch, being then employed to the-
•4 Committee of both Kingdoms) to order up the
4 reft, which was opportunely done ; for they

* joined with the Auxiliary Forces of Horfe and
e: Foot in the Enemy's Ground, and were drawn
4 into manV~.frna!l Divilions and Referves, being
4 much over-numbered by th* Enemy, who ac-
e counted themfclvcs 5060 Horfe, and General
c: Poh:fz not above '2500 Horfe, befides two fmall
'. Bodies of Foot, who were difpjfed in the two

* outmoil Intervals of Horfe.

* Upon the very Inftant of this Junction the E-

* ncmy advanced with their whole Body, and the

' Genera}

64 ¥be Parliamentary HisTcfur

An. *T Car. I. 'General, leaving Charge of the Referve to Co-

* lonel Parfens, took Care of and led up the Van-
Divifions ; with which, after a round Volly of
Shot from the Foot, he joined Battle, charging

* the Enemy in Front and Flank where his Horfe

* was deeply wounded in the Head ; but being con-

* tinually feconded with Referves, as often as there

* was Qccafion, the reft being kept entire and

* following at a due Diftance, at length fo prevail-

* ed that the General put the Enemy to a total
' Rout : And although the Purfuit was as hot as

* could be expected from fuch wearied Horfe, thro*

* narrow dirty Lanes, and over Ditches, the Enemy

* rallied, on a great Moor-fide off Cbefler, in two

* vaft Bodies a great Diftance afunder. The firft,

* not without {ome Difpute, were again routed ;

* and -the other likewife, who retreated upon the

* Warwick Regiment with fuch Violence, as bore

* them away confufedly, intermixt with the flying

* Enemy, up to the Out-works of the Suburbs*

* The Mufqueteers within were not Jefs liberal of
' their Gun-fhot \ but the Divine Providence ap-

* peared much in the Distribution of the impartial

* Bullets, few or none lighting upon our Men, tho*

* many of the Enemy were found there expiring.

« A Body of Horfe, all the while of thefe laft
' Difputes, appeared fixed on the Top of a Hill,

* a little Diftance on that Side Chefter wherein the
' King was very confidently reported to be ; for

* confronting whereof a Party of Foot, winged with
4 Col. Lydcott and Col. Bethel? s Regiments, were

* drawn into a convenient Clofe at the Bottom, as
« a grand Referve ; but the Night by this Time
4 falling, the Body on the Hill appeared not, and
4 thofe in the Bottom returned to their ComraJes,
' fatiated with the Slaughter, Prifoners, and Booty
4 of the vanquifhed Enemy.

' While thefe Things were thus agitafcpd in the

* Field, the Remainder of Foot, left with Colonel

* Tsdwther \n the Suburbs, were not idle; for the

* Enemy made a ftrong Sally upon them out of the
' City, and were more ihenao-.tfly repulfed.

5 I

of E N G L A N D, 65

* The Number of the Slain, and of the Prifonera An- »T Car- *•
and Horfe taken, is not yet known, but is gene- t l6*5' ,
rally conjeaured to be 800 flain, befides 1500 September.
Men and 2000 Horfe taken. There was brought
in that Night the under-written Lift of the moft
confiderable Men taken and killed in the Fight,
the King with about 5 or 600 was feen going to
the Walls.

' Prifoners taken. Sir Thomas Glemham, Sir
Thomas Dacres, Sir Philip Mufgrave, Sir Thomas
D' Abridgecourt, Sir Thomas Gore, Sir Thomas Wejl-
on, Son to the Earl of Portland; James Mar-*
tin, Quarter-M after General ; Colonels Cromwell
and Giffard; Lieutenant-Colonels, Edward Hut-
ton, Conjlable, and IVigrnere ; Captains, Wyvlll^
Cotterell, Morgan, Mountain, UEJIrange, Swinhoe^ \

and Conjlable. It is reported that Sir Marmaduke
Langdale is flain, as alfo the Earl of Litchfield,
Brother to the Duke of Lenox, and Sir Bryan
Stapylton, the King's Agent for 10,000 Men in
Ireland.

For this and many other vaft Advantages, lately
gained over the King, whofe Armies and Garrifons
were now almoft entirely broke and fubdued in all
Quarters^ the Houfes made the following Order for
a Thankfgiving :

Ordered by the Lords and Commons aflembled A ThankfgJving
in Parliament, « That Thursday next fhall be fet Jg":~
apart for a Day of Thankfgiving unto Almighty succefles.
God, for his great Mercies and Bleffings upon
the Parliament's Forces under Colonel-General
Pointz, againft the King's Forces near Chejler,
on Wednesday laft, the 24th Inftant } and like-
wife for God's great Mercy upon the Parliament's
Forces in taking of Erijlol, and the Devizes ; the
Succefs in Pembrokejhire given to the Forces under
Major-General Laugherne ; and for God's great
Mercy in Scotland; in all Churches and Chapels,
of London and Weftminjler, and within the Lines
of Communication ; and on Yhurfday next come
Fortnight in all 'other Part1- of the Kingdom.
VOL. , XIV. E «And

66

An. 21. Car. I.

1645.

Oftober.

The Lord Sa-
ville, who had
been bailed, re-

Parliamentary HISTORY

And Alderman Pennington is appinted to defire
the Lord Mayor to give timely Notice hereof to
the Minifters of the Churches and Chapels in the
Lines of Communication.

* And it is farther ordered. That the Members
of theHoufe of Commons do fend Copies of this
Order to the refpe&ive Committees of the
feveral Counties, to the End that they ' may
be fo difperfed, that the Counties may take
timely Notice hereof, that the day may be
kept with that Obfervation as is due to fo great
Bleffings.'

Oftober i. The Houfe of Lords having admit-
ted the Lord Saville to Bail, and he thereupon fet at
Liberty, the Commons, at a Conference, reprefent-
ed this to the Lords as wronging their Juftice, for
thefe Reafons : * That the Lord Saville having
taxed Mr. Holies with keeping Correfpondence
with the Lord Digby, and revealing their Secrets
to the Enemy ; a Crime no lefs than High Trea-
fon, if true : And grounding all this upon a Letter ;
which, not proving, he was liable, as making
himfelf thereby the Author of the Report, to be
punifhed as a falfe Accufer : That the Lord £7-
ville's having prevaricated before the Committee,
and refufed to declare from whom he received that
Letter ', was a high Contempt of their Houfe ; and
therefore it was againft all Law and Reafon, that
a Perfon committed for a Contempt of a Court
fhould be bailed by that Court whilft he continues
in that Contempt. Befides, the Commons urged
that they had other Matters againft him ; as
his holding Correfpondence with the l!nemy, and
his fending them Notice what was doing in the
Houfes and in the Army, &c. For all which
the Commons defared that the Lords would re-
mand the Lord Saville back to the Tower, there to
remain clofe Prifoner as he was before, till he con-
form to the Order of both Houfes ;' which was done
accordingly.

2 A

^ENGLAND. 67

A Reman/trance from the Scots Commiffioners to An, 21. Car. I.
the Parliament was next read, complaining of . *" 4S'
Want of Pay for their Army, and other Inconveni-
ences they met with ; which cannot be better ex-
prefled than in their own Words.

September 29, 1645.

U

fhips did communicate to us the Refolu- from the Scots
tions of both Houfes, to which you defired a fpeedy Commiffioners,
Anfwer; and further acquainted us, That the *^ ^°^°
Papers by us lately given in were under Confidera- Want of Pay*
tion of the Houfe ; and that we fhould receive
their Anfiuer with all Conveniency. Upon the
2yth your Lordfhips renewed the fame Defires.
* We cannot give a pofitive Anfwer to the De-
fires of both Houfes, concerning the Difpofal of
the Army, becaufe it is not in our Power ; but
we (hall communicate their Defires forthwith to
the Committee with the Army, and prefs them^
with all the Earneftnefs we cart, to which we
expect they will be ready to give alljuft Satisfac-
tion fo far as the Seafon of the Year may admit ;
and, in the mean time, we defire a fpeedy Anfwer
to our Paper of the 4th of this Inftant, and the
other of the nth, fo far as concerns Money,
Arms, and Ammunition ; which is ftill as necef-
fary for the Accomplifliment of our Defires, as if
the Army had marched into Scotland; and the
fpeedy providing thereof will be a great Encourage-
ment to that Army, and a Furtherance to their
Undertakings.

' It is well enough known to the Honourable
Houfes how far that Army hath formerly been
difappointed of Provifions, having, for Inftance,
received but one Month's Pay thefe feven Months
paft ; how much their Proceedings have been re-
tarded this Summer, and fame of their Undertak-
ings fruftrated, for Wantofneceflary Accommo*
dation : And we defire it may be confidercd what
Hindrance it may be to the Publick Service, if,
for the future,effec~tual Courfe (rial! not be taken
for their Entertainment, and other Neceffai ies.

£2 'It

6 8 *fbe- Parliamentary HISTORY

* It is agreed upon by the Treaty, That 3i,ooo/.
' fhould be monthly allowed and paid towards the
oflober. ' Maintenance of that Army, for real Performance

* whereof many Declarations have been made by

* the Honourable Houfes of Parliament, before and

* fince the Entry of that Army into this Kingdom ;

* and finding the Monies, arifmg out of the AflefT-
' ments and Revenues of the Northern Counties,

* were not fufficient for the Maintenance thereof,

* they did, in February laft, pafs an Ordinance of Par-

* liament, for afleffing 2i,ooo/. monthly upon the

* feveral Counties therein mentioned ; of all which,

* there being now fullfeven Months paft, there is only

* come in to the Committee at Goldfmiths-Hall9

* I20O/. which, together with, 19,0007. yet to be

* brought in, they are obliged to repay to the City

* of London for the Month's Pay by them advanced;
4 ib that there is no Probability that any confidera-
4 ble Proportion can, for a long Time, be brought

* in to fupply the Neceffities of that Army; efpe-
*•- cially there being two other Afleflments, which

* preceded the Afleflments for the Scots Army, al-

* though the Treaty between the Kingdoms doth

* precede them all, and ought to be obferved as
4 foon as any particular Ordinance ; and thofe Af-

* feflments, for other Armies, are really executed,
< and Monies thereupon collected by the Counties

* and brought in ; whereas the Afiefiment for the
4 Scots Army is almoft wholly neglected, is not ex-
4 ecuted by others, and cannot be executed by us,
' our very demanding the Queftion being clamoured
V againft as intermeddling with their Eftatcs ; nei-

* ther is it our Defire in the leaft Kind to inter^

* meddle, provided that it were remembered that

* not a written Ordinance^ but real Payments, can

* fatisfy the Neceffities of the Soldiers.

* By the fame Ordinance of the 2Oth of February >
4 1644, the Commiflioners of Excife appointed

* by Ordinance of Parliament, or their refpeclive
' Deputies and Sub-commiffioners, are ordained to

* Pay 3000 /. monthly out of the whole Excife ari-
' fmg out of the fix Northern Counties to that Army;

4 and

o/ ENGLAND. 69

* and though the Excife is accounted, and doth An. *i Car. J.

* really prove to all others, to be one of the beft v y [ _ ,

* Securities within the Kingdom, yet Ways are September.
c taken to make it ineffectual to that Army ; fo that

* there hath not been ioo/. thereof received in all
' for thefe five Months paft, the Profits thereof be-
' ing almoft wholly anticipated and foreftalled here
' in the South , and applied to other Ufes ; and in
' all Appearance {hall ftill continue in that Condi-
' tion, unlcfs the Honourable Houfes give further
' Order herein to the Commiifioners of Excife, for
e Payment of that 3000 /. to the Scots Army, ac-
' cording to the Intent of the Ordinance.

' Concerning the Coal of Newcajlle'\ the .Price
c thereof hath been fo much diminifhed, and the
' Trade thereby decreafed, that, this laft Month
' the Profits thereof have not amounted to above

* 800 /. whereas they were eftimated by your

* Lordfhips, in a Paper of November I 644, to

* 7000 /. per Menfem, for and towards the Pay-
6 ment of the 3i,ooo/. monthly, due to the Scots

* Army.

' There was alfo 200 /. per Diem, lately ap-
' pointed to be paid to the Infantry of that Army,
' whereof they never received one Penny to this
c Hour, as was certified to the Heufe of Commons
' by their Commiffioners, in their Letter of the

' Thefe ObftrucYions and Failings in the Ways
e appointed by the Houfes for the Entertainment

* of that Army, with divers others, we have repre-
' fented in our former Papers, to which we have

* never received any Anfwer, nor feen any effectual

* Courfe taken for Redrefs thereof: And if the
« Houfes mall be pleafed to remove thefe Obftruc-
4 tions, fupply the Defeats, and take an effectual

* Courfe for their Entertainment, the Scots Army

* will be very far from giving the leaft Occafion to
' the Parliament to make any Declaration more

* concerning them than, other Arrives within the

* Kingdom, againft laying of Taxes, or levying
4 any Contribution upon any County or Part of

E i « the

' tfhe Parliamentary HISTORY

the Kingdom, or giving any Caufe of Complaint
to the Country. And kwe are perfuaded it is the
Odober ' earneft Defire of that Army to evidence, accord-
' ing to the Qth Article of the Treaty •, That their
' Entrance into, and Continuance in, England {hall
' be made Ufe of to no other Ends than are ex-
« pre'ffed in the Covenant and Treaty.

' But if no effectual Courfe ftiall be taken for
f their Entertaiment, according to the Treaty,
5. and that it fhall not be thought lawful for them to

* provide for their neceflary Subfiftance in the Parts
? where they (hall refide, we leave it to the Houfes
' of Parliament to judge, whether it muft not in-

* evitably follow, that they fhall either ftarve or
f difband ; which we are confident is as far from,

* the Intentions of the Honourable Houfes, as it is
' againft the 'Law of Nature, the Caufe wherein,

* and the Covenant and Treaty whereby, that Army

* was engaged.

' Thefe Things, oi|t of the Confcience of our

* Duty, and Senfe of the Truft repofed in us, we
f could not forbear to exprefs for our Exoneration ;
f nor do we reprefent them to expoftulate for the
f Time paft, but that a fpeedy and effe&ual Re-
' medy may be taken by the Honourable Houfes
' for the future, whereby that Army may be ena-
e bled and rendered more adtive in advancing the
f Public Service.

By 'Command of the CommiJJloners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

Ordered to be communicated to the Houfe of
Commons ; and to put them in mind alfo of a
Meffage concerning the Prince's Letter to Sir
Thomas Fairfax.

Oft. 9. Another Remonftrance, from the Scots
Commiffioners, was read in the Houfe of Lords, as
follows :

'TT* O give a more pofitive Anfwer to the De-
rM *• fires of the Houfes> concerning the march-

fiess Newark. ' ing of the Scots Army to befiege Newark, was

* not

^ENGLAND.

* not in our Power nor in the Bounds of our Com- Aa
' miffion ; but what was in our Power, for fatif-

' fying the Defires of the Houfes, that we have
c done with all Diligence ; for we did forthwith
' communicate the Defires of the Houfes to the
' Committee of the Parliament of Scotland refiding
4 with the Army, and entrufted for their Part with
6 the Power of difpofing of the Army, and with

* all Earneftnefs did prefs a fpeedy and fatisfadtory

* Anfwer ; which we do (hortly expect, becaufe,

* \>y. Letters which we have received by thrs Poft,
' we underftand there is a Meeting of that Com-

* mittee and of fome of the General Officers of that
' Army upon the Borders with the Committee otScot-

* land; and we are very hopeful the Refult of their
' Confultations (hall tend to the bettering the Con-
' dition of that Army, the advancing of the Public
' Peace, and the fatisfying of the Defires of both
' Houfes of Parliament.

' As it fhall be our earneft Defire and conftant

* Endeavour, that the Scots Army may be attive
c in the profecuting of the War, until the Peace of
' both Kingdoms be fettled ; fo we cannot but re-
*" new our Defires to the Honourable Houfes, to
« take more to Heart the Neceffities of that Army,
c the Removal of the Obftrudtions, and Supply of

* the Defects of the Ways appointed for their
' Maintenance ; and we earneirly entreat for a
' fpeedy dnfwer to the Particulars reprefented by
' us in our former Papers concerning the Army,
' and for fettling of Religion, and procuring the

* Common Peace of both Kingdoms ; which were
' the main Caufes and Ends that engaged us in this
« War.

* It may be equally confidered by the Honourable

* Houfes, when now the Kingdom of Scotland^
' out of their earneft Defire, upon the Grounds
' contained in the Covenant and Treaty^ to procure

* the Peace of this Kingdom, have denied them-

* felves, and loft their own Peace, and are obliged,
' by Covenant, Treaty, and joint Declaration of

E 4 « both

tte Parliamentary HISTORY

both Kingdoms, never to lay down Arms till the
_ Peace of both be fettled, to what Straits the
Odober ' Kingdom of Scotland is brought, if the Houfes of
' Parliament, being earneftly and frequently de-

* fired by that Kingdom, {hall delay to join in
' feeking a fafe and well-grounded Peace, upon
' Terms already agreed upon by the joint Confent

* of both Kingdoms, and in the mean Time {hall
' not provide a fure Way of Entertainment for

* the Scots Army, and thereby enable them, accord-

* ing to the Treaty, to profecute the War,

' When this is laid to Heart by the Wifdom and
c Brotherly Affection of the Houfes of Parliament,

* we do not doubt but, in their Juftice and Equity,

* they will judge of our Difficulties and Defires as

* if they were their own, and will determine and

* do as in the like Cafe they would expedt from the
' the Kingdom of Scotland.'

Py Command of the CommiJJisners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland. f
9, .645. JOHN CHIESL'EY,

The Houfes feemed to take little Notice of thefe
Memorials, by their giving no Anfuaer to them all
this Time ; but, however, foon after they did
anfwer them to fome Purpofe.

OcJ. ii. A remarkable Letter from the Earl of
Lincoln is entered in the Lords Journals this Day,
relating to his having omitted taking the Solemn
League and Covenant ; which, with the Refolutions
pf the Lords thereupon, run thus :

' For the Right Honourable the Lord GREY of
W0rke^ or any other who is Speaker pro Tempore
of the Houfe of LORDS, to be communicated to
their Lordfhips,

My Lord,

A Letter .from T jP O N Refolvcs in the Houfe of Lords, tfa
the Earl cf Lin- t/ IO/£ Of AucrUft '164.4, now fourteen Months

coin, concerning r cr,1 J ,c. " . _. J , TT r

h, snot taking y^^j That no Mtmbw or JJftJiant of that Houje,
the Qovcatife net

of ENGLAND.

««/ having taken the National Covenant, flail fit in
the Houfe after the ijth of the fame Month , before i y"_.__
the taking thereof; finding my f elf debarred of the un- October.
doubted Right of a Peer to Jit in Parliament, the mojl
antient and greateft Honour ', as I conceive, belonging
to the Peerage, I have, in this Length of Time, accord-
ing to the beft of my "Judgment^ weighed with myfelf
the Caufe of my Sequeftratlon ; and being deprived of
this my undoubted Privilege, without any Charge againjt
me personally made, nor any Judgment upon me given,
which Jhould render me unworthy and uncapable to en-
joy my Privilege ; (in which Cafe and Proceeding I
never doubted the Power of either Houfe over their
Members,) I humbly offer to their Lordjhips, Whether,
for a bare Omijfion, or deferring upon a Scruple of
Confcience, wherein I yet remain unfatlsfied, to do that
which is not impofed by any A£t or Ordinance of Par-
liament, with any Penalty, upon the meanefi SubjeEt,
that myfelf Jhould be debarred of the hlgheft and moft
undoubted Privilege of a Peer ? This, I hold it my
Duty, to intimate to their Lordflnps for the prefent^
and for Pofterlty, that that Vote may be, as many
others have been, taken into their further Honourable
Confederations, and myfelf freed from the Rejlraint
of enjoying my Privilege, which I have, with your
Lordjhips, by Ordinance of this Parliament, protefted
to maintain. My Lord, I do, in this, not look merely
upon mine own Inter eft, but upon the high and general
Concernment j and reft

Your Lordfhip's

mpft humble Servant,

Berkfoire-Houfe,

oa. 10, i645. T. LINCOLNE.

This Letter the Lords ordered to be taken into
Confideration on the i3th Inftant ; when a Mef-
fage from the Houfe of Commons, Aug. 10, 1644,
^nd a Vote of this Houfe upon it were read, con-
cerning th? Peers taking the Covenants j and, after

Debate,

Parliamentary HISTORY

Aa.zi. dr. I, Debate, it was refohed, upon the Queftion, ' That
the faid Vote, now read, fhould be repealed. There-
Oclober. upon, the Earl of Lincoln was called in to take his
Place in that Houfe as a Peer.

An Ordinance was this Day agreed to for bor-
rowing 40,000 /. at the Rate of "8/. per Cent. In-
tereft, to be raifed by voluntary Subfcriptions or by
Afleflrnents, fefr.

Letters from the Off. 15. The Lord Roberts, from the Corn-
Lord Digby, the m[itee of both Kingdoms, reported feveral Papers,
Sd o£plpers, which were read to*the Lords as follow ;

read, relating to

the Siege of j)'ie Martis, Oftobris 1 4, 1645.

At the Committee of both Kingdoms at Derby-
Houfe, ordered, ' That a Letter from the Committee
of both Kingdoms refiding at Berwick, with the
inclofed from the Lord Digby to the Earls of
Leven and Calendar, and the Earl- of Levels
Anfwer ; as alfo a Paper fent from Nottingham^
and the Extraft of a Report of a Scout to Colonel
Doyley, be all read to both Houfes.'

The'Lord DIGBY'S LETTER.

To the Right Honourable the Earl of LEVEN,
General, and the Earl of CALENDAR, Lieu-
tenant-General, of the Scots Forces now in
England.

My Lord,

d V I N G formerly written to your Lord/hips,
by his MajeJJy's Command, upon a Subjeft
highly importing the Peace and Happinefs of all his
M.ajejly's Dominions, I am again commanded to tell
your Lordjftips, That, in Confidence of the good Ef-

h

thereof, his Maje/ly is, through many
culties, advanced hither to Newark, with a con-
fiderable Body of Horfe \ and doth earnejlly defire that

hf

of ENGLAND. 75

be may receive, with Expedition, an Anfwer to what An« 21 Car-
was then propofed by, v *' '__

%T j O&cber.

Lords,

Newark, O<3. 4,

'645- Your Lordfhip's

moft humble Servant,
GEORGE DIGBY.

The Earl of L E v E N ' s ANSWER.

For the COMMANDER in CHIEF of the FORCES
now with his MAJESTY,

My Lord,

T Received here, upon the 8th In/tant, a Letter from
the Lord Digby, bearing Date from Newark, the
tyh <?/"O£lober, a Copy whereof is here inclofed, re-
lating to one formerly fcnt by him, by his Majejlfs
Command, upon a Subject highly importing the Peace
find Happinefs of all his Dominions ; to which Letter
/ can return no Anfwer, having never received it ;
but had it come to my Hands, or any Motion of that
Nature, I Jhould, as I have done with this, addrejjed
them to the Parliaments of both Kingdoms, or their
Commijfioners, as only capable of receiving and anfwer-
ingfuch Proportions. I am,

My Lords,
Berwick, Oft. 9,

l645' Your Lordfhips humble Servant,

LEVEN.

The LETTER from the COMMITTEE at Berwick
to the Committee of both Kingdoms fitting at
Derby-Houfe.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

rf 'Trumpet came from Newark with this inclofed
•**• Letter, directed to the General and Lieutenant-
General of the Scots Army. It was opened at North-
allerton by the General of the Artillery, who com-
mands in Chief there : He fealed it again) and fent

the

76 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. zt Car. I. the Trumpet with a Servant of his own hither to the
l6*5' General ; who hearing what it was, would not open it
OftJber. *M be fat for the Marquis of Argyle, the Earls of
Lauderdale and Lanerk. They immediately brought
it to the CommiJJioners of the Parliament 0/" England,
and all of us refolved to fend it to your Lord/hips , to be
by you communicated to both Houfes of Parliament.
The General protejis he never faw any other Letter,
which this feems to import, nor any from the Enemy,
except that which he fent to London from Ledbury j
and hath returned this Anfwer, which you will receive
kere inclofed from,

My Lords,

Your Lordfhips,
Berwick, Oft. 9,

1645. Affectionate Friends and Servants,

ARGYLE, W. ARMYNE,

LAUDERDALE, H. VANE,

LANERK, Ro. GOODWYN,

P. WHARTON, THO. HATCHER.

An INFORMATION fent from Nottingham.

f^Eorge Higgins of Eakin informeth from Mr.
^-^ Hawden oiTuxford, in the County of Notting-
ham, Minifter, and by his Order and Direction,

* That a Trumpet belonging to Col. Eyre of New-
' ark, patting through Tuxford, on Sunday the 5th

* of this Inftant Oftober, did, in the Prefence of the
« faid Mr. Hawden, fay and affirm, That he was
' going with Letters from his Majefty and from

* Sir Richard Willis^ Governor of Newark^ to Ge-

* neral Liven, with Hopes to bring him back with
' his Army to Newark, for the King, with ;u

* much Joy as ever he did come for the Parlia-

* ment : And Mr. Hawden did fee two Letters in

* the Hand of the Trumpeter. And two 'Scots Gen-

* tlemen being at Tuxford with Mr. Hawden the
1 fame Day, he did affirm to them, That the King

and

0f ENGLAND. 77

* and General Leven had been long in Treaty, and "An. zi Car. I,
< he did not doubt but it was effected, aiid that this ^_l64S'

* Letter would bring him back.' October,
Taken at Nottingham in the Prefence of us,

oaober 6, 1645- FRA. THORNHAUGH,

CHARLES WHITE.

The Scout's Report that came from Oxford, who
faith, « That on Wednefday Night, very late, came
in a Meflenger from the King, who did report,
That all the Forces of the Scots who were about
Hereford, are agreed to come to the King ; and
that they are in as much Joy for that as for the
Coming of the new Governor.'
All the aforefaid Papers were ordered to be com-
municated prefently to the Houfe of Commons by
MefTage j and accordingly Sir Edward Leech and
Mr. Page were fent with them.

The fame Day the Lord Roberts, reported a Con^
ference with the Commons, wherein two Letter*
from the North were exhibited, and feveral Refo-
lutions of that Houfe thereupon.

Thefe Letters were addrefled to their Speaker,
William Lenthall, Efq; And firft, that from the
Committee of the Houfe of Commons then refiding
at York.

S I R,

CT'O appeafe a dangerous Mutiny, at the Time A Complaint

when the King, with his Forces, advanced into fTo.m tbe ConV
this County, and fent out Proclamations that ^^"[^ft* he Scow
from Jixteen to Jixiy jhould come unto him for guard- Am.y.
ing of his P erf on to this City ; and for the encour-
aging our Horfe, both Officers and private Men^
•we prcmifcd them a Month's Pay, which was the
leajl of their Demands, IVe have with much La~
hour, and by Engagement of our particular Credits,
advanced a Fortnight's Pay unto the Troopers ; but
it is impcjfible for us to pay the reft unto them out of
thefc Parts, which are fa impoverifitd ; find the

7$ The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. z i Car. I. whole North-Riding is now not only taken up in
l645- Quarters, but alfo exceedingly ajjejjed in Money, by
*he Scots ; fe that we cannot raife fufficient for
the growing Pay of the Foot. The Horfe do again
begin to make high and peremptory Demands of their
Fortnight's Pay in Arrear ; which, if not fpeedily
paid, will occafion as high, if not an higher, Mu-
tiny than the former, We hear from London, that
the lO.OOOl. ii already taken up by the Horfe Officers,
and for Difcharge of other Debts and Engagements',
fo that there is no other Way left for keeping our Horfe
together upon Service, than aprefent Order to be given
by the Parliament for advancing that Sum, which will
amount unto 3000!. or thereabouts. We earnestly in~
treat you to acquaint the Houfe therewith, on whofe Fa-
vour we rely, hoping a fpeedy Courfe will be directed
by them for making Supply hereof, otherwife we
cannot be able long to do them Service in thefe Parts.

S I R,

York, Oft. 14. 1645.

Your humble Servants,

FRANCIS PIEREPOINT, JAMES BELLINGHAM,
WILLIAM LISTER, Jo. WASTELL.

WILLIAM ALLANSON,

The other Letter was from the Commiffioners of
AfTeflhient in the feveral Ridings of Torkjbirtt

S I R,

TT hath often been reprefented from this County,
ficbn- that ibe ^tolerable Burdens 6f Armies, Englifh
miffionersof A(- and Scots, have reduced great Numbers of Families
feffment in that to the Extremities of Poverty ; for the Redrefi
County. whereof earned Requejl hath been made from the

Commiffioners, in Behalf of the Inhabitants of the
Country ; who, having lately received fome Relaxa-
tion of their Sufferings, by the Removal of the Scots
Army Southwards, and the reducing fundry of the
Enemy's Garrifins, were fettling the mf elves to fomi
Indujlry to fupport themf elves withall / -wherein they

of E N G L A N D.

were not a little encouraged by the Ordinance of An
Parliament, appointing the Charge of the Scots Army
to be 'indifferently fupported by a general Afj'eff-
ment laid upon the Kingdom, whereof they were only
to bear a proportionable Share : But noiu, as foon as
their Harve/l is reaped, and Provi/ions made by
every Family for their proper Subfijlance for the
Tear following, the Scots Army ts unexpectedly re-
turned into thefe Parts again : And albeit we, the
Commijftoners of the feveral Ridings, have made
known unto them, that we neither have Authority to
impofe anyfuch Burden upon the Country, and, if we
had fuch Power, yet that we know the Country
unable to bear them, without the univerfal Ruin of
the Inhabitants ; neverthelefs the Commanders of
the faid Army have, of themfelves, taken up Quar-
ters in the North-Riding, and fpread their Charge^
and fend out their Warrants in other Parts of the
County, requiring from the People fuch vaji Sums
of Money and Proportion of Provijions, as have not
teen heard of in other Parts of this Kingdom ;
which neverthelefs they force the People to bring in to
them.

Thefe Impofitions, thus laid by them upon the
Country, as we under/land by daily Complaints
brought to us from feveral Places, are, in mojl Parts
of the Country, after the Rate of 144,468!. per
Menfetn, being dijlributed in the fame Meafure
through the whole Country ', and in feme other Parts
not fo much j but in no Place, that we have yet heard
of, lefs than after the Rate 0/45,000!. per Menfem;
and all this taken under Pretence of Order from
their Superior Officers, befides the infinite Oppref-
Jions and Extortions of the Soldiers, who take away
the Subjefts Horfes, Goods, and Money, without any
public Order, which we conceive may equal the Propor-
tion of their certain AJJcJjments.

Thefe i'nfupportable Burdens muft of NeceJ/itj

produce an univerfal Poverty and Defolation of the

Country, 'and- fo prepare the Difpojitions of the

People to defpcrate Ajfociations and Refolutions, ts

' ' rife

§0 The Parliamentary HISTORY

Aa. a i Car. 1. rife in Oppofition ; -which, how dejlruttive it may
*6*S' t prove to the prefent Union of the two Nations , we
•dtober ttave to your Confederation. And we may not omit
herewith to reprefent unto you, as a Matter conducing
to the fame End, that the Ways to raife Money in
this County ', for the Pay of our own Army, being
'wholly obJlrucJed by thofe Levies of the ScotSi that
take up the whole Subftance of the Country, it will be
impojjible to rejtrain our own Soldiers, who were
mutinous before ; but that now their Diftempers will
be much increafed, and being united to an opprejfed
People, may give a more fpeedy Vent to the Heart-
burnings, and Discontents contracted by thefe Suf-
ferings, which vifibly tend to the ittttr Confujion of1
tfns Country.

Sir, whatfoevtr our fucceeding Miferies may be,
yet we conceive we have noiu fully dif charged our
Duties in making this Remonjlrance of our Suffer-
ings to that Honourable Houfe, which is the only
Place, under Heaven, from whence we can hope for
Relief -y and our Requejl is, in order to the Preven-
tion of thefe imminent Dangers, that the Scots Army
may be immediately removed from thefe Parts, arid
jome Courfe taken for Reparation of the Country's
Sufferings by the other Parts of the Kingdom liabl(
to the Burden of that Army ; which we humbly de-
fer e may be immediately prefented by you to the Houfe
from

Your moft affectionate

York.Oa, j,

1645- humble Servants,

jt AISLABIE.
R. ROBINSON*
W. ALLANSON.
JAS. CHALLONER.

JOHN MlLLINGTOti.

Ro. WYMORE.
Jo. FARRER.
THO% CHAT.LONER,
JOHN CLA/TON.
MATT-** ' "SYNTON.

RICHARD DARLEY.
ROBERT BARWIS.
ROBERT LEGARD.
JOHN WASTALL.
THO'. STOCKDALE.
THOS. DICKENSON.
THOS. ST. NICHOLAS.
Wm. ARMITAGE.
Jo. BRIGHT.
CHAR. RJDZ.EY.

The

cf E N O L A & t>; Si

.- .The Lord Roberts farther repeated, That Mr! An. *jr Car. r;
!Ttf/*, one of the Managers at the Conference, faid,. 4 ,./fo *'
Thar, at the fame Time the foregoing Letters were
read in the tloufc of Commons,.. they had allo re-
fceived frdm Iheir Lordfhips two Papers, waich had
been delivered in by the Scots Commiffioners, one
dated the 2C)th of September laft^ and the other the
9th Inftant, upon ail Which they had patted thefe
Votes\

1. ' That this Hoiite doth declare, That as they
are bourid by the Covenant and Treaties to maintain
the Union and good Correfpondence between the
two Kingdoms, fo it is their Refolution to employ
and continue their utmoft Endeavours to maintain
the fame accordingly.

2. * That the Scots Army's ndt engaging againft
the Enemy, according to the Defires of both Houies
Houfes of rarliament, and their Gontinuaflce in the
Northern Parts, contrary to thofe Defires j is $oi
only unferviceable, but prejudicial to thofe Ends
for which their Affiftance was defired, and deftruc-
tive to thofe Parts of the Kingdom.

3. * That their laying bf Taxes, and falfing of
Money Upon the Subjects of this Kingdom, and
plundering their Houfes and Goods, is againit the
Treaty, and againft the Liberty of the Subjeft,
whicn both Kingdoms are bound to preferve ;
and doth difable the Kingdom from paying the
monthly Aileftments for the Maintenance df that
Army and the Forces of the Nertbrrh Afibcia-
tion.

4. ' That it be declared) to thd Inhabitants of
the Northern Aflbciation, That they are not boundf
to pay any fuch Monies a» are or (hall be taxed
upon them, without the Power or Authority of
both Houfes of Parliament, by the Stots Oncers, of
any other Perfon.

5. * That whatfocver Goods, Monies, Horfc?,
or Provilions have been, or fhail be, taken from
any the Inhabitants of the Northern Aflbciation, o'r
bf any other Parts of this Kingdom, without ths

VOL. XIV, F Powfc'

82

October. -

Parliamentary HISTORY

Power and Authority of both Houfes of Parlia-
ment, by any of the Sects Army, r{hall be repaid
unto them out of the Monies defigned for th«
Maintenance of that Army.

6. * That fuch Comtniffions fhall be iflued
under the Great Seal, into every County of this
Kingdom where they fhall be defired, for the cer-
tifying what Money, Billet, Horfes, Cattle, Goods,
or Provifions, have been levied or taken by any of
the Scats Army ; with like Powers and Authorities
as are contained in the Commiflions already iflued,
in that Behalf, into divers of the Northern Counties.

7. ' That whatfoever Money, Horfes, Goods,
or Provifions have been, or fhall be, levied or taken
by the Scots Army, upon the Inhabitants or Sub-
jects of the Kingdom, (hall be accounted as
ib much of the Pay of the Scots Army ; and that
this Kingdom is difengaged from the Payment of
fo much as the fame, xipon Proof, fhall amount
unto.

8. * That in cafe the PrefTures of the Scots Army
upon the Subjects of this Kingdom be continued,
and unlefs Satisfaction fhall be given touching thofe
PrefTures, it cannot be expected that this Kingdom
fliall make Payment of 31,000 /. per Month to the
laid Army.

9. ' That it be defired that Satisfaction fhould
be given to this Kingdom, that fuch Forces of the
Scots Nation as have been put into the feveral Gar-
rifons of Newcqftle upon Tyne, the City of Carlisle,
and Town of Hartkpoole, the Caftles of Tinmouth^
Warkwwtb, Tbirlewall^ and Stockton, without the
Confine of both Houfes of Parliament, may be
forthwith removed ; to the end they may be dif-
pofed of in fuch Manner as fhall be thought fit by
both Houfes of the Parliament of England.

10. ' That the Letters from the Committees of
York) of the third and fourth of this Inftant Oflobtr,
•with the Fetes thereupon, be communicated to the
.Lords at a Conference.

That the Votes formerly pafled the Houfe,

for removing the Obfiructions that

happen
bringing

of E 1ST G L A N-D. 83

bringing in the Afleflments for the Scots Army, and An: " Car* *•
for the providing of 30, OGO /. for that Army upon *
their coming to Newark, be communicated to the
Lords at this Conference.

12.' That the Houfe do fit in a Grand Com-
mittee} every Tuefday and Tburfday^ immediately
after Prayers, to take into Confideration the Mat-
ter of Proportions for a fafe and well-grourided
Peace ; and that this Committee do begin tirft to fit
To-morrow after Prayers.

1 3. « That Wednesday next, between the Hours
of Ten and Twelve, be appointed for the reading
of the Ordinance^ the third Time, concerning
Church-Government ; and that the Members b«
enjoined all to attend. 'fiy>

The Lord Roberts added, That, at the faid Con-
ference, Mr. Long reported from the City, That
they would endeavour, and were in good "Hopes to
efFecT:, the providing of 3O,ooo/. for the Scots
Army, in cafe they (hould be before Newark by the
firft of November, otherwife not ; and he further
read thefe Votes following, made by the Commons :

1. ' That the Scots Anfwer, touching the
marching their Army to befiege Newark is not
fatifaclory.

2. « That the Scots Commiflioners be defired to
give a pofitive and fpeedy Anfwer, touching their
Army's marching to befiege Newark.

3. ' That fome Gentlemen be fent into the
City of London to borrow 3O,ooo/, towards pay-
ing off the Scots Array \ and that the Afleflments,
due and payable out of the feveral Counties for that
Army, {hall be the Security for Payment of the
laid Money, together with Intereft for the For-
bearance thereof.

4. * That Thurfday next be affigned for the
Committee at Goldfmitb's-Hatl, to report to this
Committee the Obftructions concerning the not
coming in of the Afleflments for the Payment of
the Scots Army.

FV 5. « That

84 ^k Parliamentary HISTORY

A*, ii Cir. I. 5. « That 200 Barrels of Powder, with Bullets
Pr°Portiona^> an<* a Double Proportion of Match,
^forthwith provided and furnifhed for the &*/>
Army, hi cafe they (hall be before Newark by the
firft of November.'

At this Conferehce« alfo Mr. Long declared,
*That upon the Report of the Committee, xvhich
the Hotjfe of Commons fent to Goldfmiths-Hall to
know^ the Obftru&ions of the coming in of the
Afleflments 'for the Scots Army, that Houfe had
alfo made theTe further Refalutiens :'

1. « That the Committee at GoUfhltks»Hall
do forthwith pftt in Execution all fuch Po*crt and
Authorities as are given unto them, for the effec-
tual bringing in of the Afleflmentt for Payment
of the Scots Army ; and that if any Committee,
or Member thereof, or other Officer employed by
them, do obftruft the fpeedy bringing in of the
faid Monies, that they do fend fot tnem, and re-
quire an Account of them, according to the Power
given them : And that if they fhall be informed
of any Member of this Houfe, that is the Caufe
of either diverting or obftru&ing the coming in
of the faid AfTeilment*, that they do certify the
Name and Names of fuch Member or Members to
the Houfe, to be proceeded with as the Houfe fhaJl
think! fit,

2. * That whereas the Power giteft to that
Committee is of Force only as to the Aneflments,
for the nrft four Months, for the Scots Army, it
is now ordered, That the fame Powers, in every
Clauf« and Article thereof, fhall be of Force, and
applied to the effectual and fpeedy bringing in of
the laft four Months AfleflhiCRts ; and alfo for
the bringing, in the Arrears upon -the Ordinance for
the Loan of 2oo,Oco/< for the Sfoto Advance into
thrs Kingdom/

By the fame Report frdm the Cofrimfttee at Gold-
fr.'.itk's-Hatly it appeared that 1000 Breafts, Back,
ar.d Pots, IO06 Pair of Piftols with Holftcrs,
Mufquets* 7000 B^ndiieers, 300 Barrel*

. . of E N G'L A N D. 85

»F Powder, 10 Ton» of Match, 'and TO Tons of An. »iCv. r.
Bullet were fent by that Committee to the Setts ;l __^
Army, when they marched from Newark, South- oOofccr,

wards

;;

At this Conference Mr, Lwg alfo read another
'ote, viz.

That thefe Letters from the North, and thefe
"etes thereupon, be communicated to the Lords at
a Conference ; and their Lordfhips to be defired,
in cafe they fhall a/lent unto them, that u Commit^
tee of both Houfcs may be appointed to dige.ft tKem
into Form, to be an Anjwer to the Papers from the
Scots Commiffioners.'

Next Mr. E(ackifton^ faid, « That there were
fome Letter* that came this Morning, which he
Was commanded to impart to their Lordfhips at
this Conference, as follows :

For our Honourable Friend WILLIAM LENTHALL,

Efq; Speaker of the Houfe of Commons in.

Parliament.

Mr. Speaker,

£T"H IS it the third Addrefi which we have made Another Letter,
"*• to you, being occajioncd \by further and ntty Com- fr°TO the Cp.nVf
plaints* fine e our la/}, concerning the deplorable, ana ^ff^entVnyofk-
now almojt ruined, Eftatt of this County, by reafan of (hire, to the
the Scots Army quartertd upon us. Speaker.

lft art mojl umvitting to be troublefome unto you,
where wt can paffibly avoid it ; and therefore we pray
• you to peruft this inclofed Copy of our Letter to Ge-
neral Leven, which not only will fatisfy you in //;/
Particulars of our Grievances, but thai we omit nt
lawful Ifays we fan think on for our own Preferva-
tion. The Copy of his Anfwer to us is alfo herewith
fent you, of whom ivc muji needs give this honour-
'Tejiimony, That, if thi inferior Officers of his
Army had been as Direful to maintain the good Cor-
refpondency between thefe Kingdoms as bis Excellency
hath been, we verily believe that ivc jbould not have
bad any Occafim of making theft Complaint; ; but
we perfuade ourfflves that bis Commands are not
F 3 obftrv*.

86 'The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. a i Car. I. qbferved, becaufe our Suffering; increafe daily with

*5« his Abfence j jo that, without prefent Eafe, we cannot

Qaober" expeft any Thing but fudden Ruin, for they demean

them] elves not as if they came only for their Subft/iencey

but as ifpurpofely to dejlroy us.

We nothing doubt of the Parliament' s equal 'Care
of us as of other Parts of this Kingdom \ and our
Fidelity to the Cdufe ajjures' us, that we have not
merited to be defigned out for Deftruftion ; nor that
we only Jhottld mourn • at this prefent, when all
England, by God's Mercies, hath fuch Occajion to
rejoice. Our Necejfities, therefore, embolden us to
be thus importunate for our prefent Relief, being
not otherwife able to appeafe the Cries arid Tears of
fuch a Multitude of .miferable People, who daily
Jlock to us for Redrefs : And it being the greatefl Part
of our Grief in that we are not able to help
them, we humbly implore your prefent and fpeedy
Ajfiftance, who dejire, with our utmojl Endeavours^
to approve ourfelves,

Your humble Servants,
.
RICHARD DARLEY. THOS. BOURCHIER.

A ' T "T c

AR. INGRAM. JOHN SAVILLE.

RO.BARWIS. DARCY WENTWORTK,

Win. ARMITAGE. THOS. STOCKDALE.

Jo. BRIGHT. JA. CHALLONER.

Jo. FARJLER. CHR. LEGARD.

Jo. WAJSTELL. ..T-1*01' CHALLONER.
CHR. PEIRSE.

The Letter to General LEVEN, mentioned in the
foregoing.

May it pleafe, your Excellency,

And their Utter J ^ ^Je Cries and Lamentations of fo many dijlref-

tb the Earl of •* fed and miferable People, who fadly apprehend

Leven, on the f[Jejr fudden Ruin and Confufwi, by the Demeanor

iu je * of your Army now quartered upon them, were asfni-

b

of E N G L A N D. 87

\d to your Excellency as they are to ourfelves^
we jhould not need to make this Addrefs unto you ; for

ly reprefinted to your Excellency as they are to ourfehes, An- ZI Car-
we Jhould not need to make this Addrefs unto you ; for
as we have been confident of your real Aff&ftion, both

to this great Caufe now in Hand, as alfo to our Nation ;
Co where the one or the other may unjujlly fuffer, thro*
the Silence of fitch as, being over-awed by the Power
of your inferior Officers, dare not make their Suffer-
ings known unto your Excellency, we cannot, in dif-
charge of the Duty which we owe unto the Parlia-
ment of England, which hath intrujled us with the
Care of this County ; nor ths National-Covenant,
which we have made with Almighty God, whereby w*
have fworn, with all Faithfulnefs, to endeavour the
Difcovery of all fuch as have been, or Jhall be, Incen-
diaries or ill Inftruments in dividing thefc Kingdoms
one from another ; unlefs we do in fame Meafure
reprefent unto your Excellency the Difcontents of our
People ; that, by the Amendment thereof, this Coun-
ty, committed to our Charge, may be preferved from
Ruin, and our National Covenant maintained in-
violable.

The Complaints of the People are thefe :

That your Army doth not only take free Quarter 9
contrary to your Excellency's Order, as we are in-
formed, but lay upon the County what AJ/effhients
they pleafe ; infomuch that fojm fmall Villages^
ivhich by the AJJeJJments of Parliament are to pay but
5!. 4 s, the Month, are required by your Officer t t§
pay 335. 4d. a Day.

That fame Towns have whole Regiments quarter-
ed upon them, and y 1. a Day befides, exacted for
AJfeffments.

That whereas, by the Ordinance of Parliament, the
County of York is to pay but 7000!. a Month for Af-
fejfment, if this whole County were aJJt'Jfed proportion-
ably, as fome one Weapontaks is by your Officers, it
would amount unto 144,468!. a Month,

That the Officers of your Army take up free
Quarters and Billet-Money to the Proportion of three
Times the Number of your Army ; having fpread
themfelvet from Whitby in the Eajl, beyond Rich-
mond

8? 3%e Parliamentary HISTORY:

J. % i car. I. mona in the Weft, and from Teafe Northward al-

S' • moji toihedtyofYofr.

' "Qdtobj:?. ¥hqt the 'private Soldier is not content with fuck

kanejt Fare as. thf Countryman feeds kirn/elf, his Wife
grid Children} withal.

That having fed their Horfet with Hay and Oats ^
tiny make Havock of tfye r-eji,

That th:y permit not the Sequeflratsrs to do thein.
DU:J, nor the ffieapontake Courts or Courts Leet to be
'kept, whereby the Civil fewer 'is overthrown,

That your Army^ quartering where it cany gives
this County no djfiftance again/} tk B,nemy\ and de-,
pricing it, by Anticipation^ of the Means- whereby
tJ maintain its own Army in ajjifting of itfelfi,
teereb} tiauas it open to certain Ruin and Dejlruc-
fan.

' 'they take -away the Gpuntry- People's Horfes and
their Cattle at their Pleafurc, and imfcrifon them for
refufag to pay Affejjir.ent^

• r ihey will not permit our Soldiers 'to enjoy their
Quarters allotted them by their Officers.

And, to mafe '$eir Aftions appear more jujlifi-
a^le'y they enforce them, by. Threatening* and otberwife,
KO give under their Hands ' (notiuifh/landing thleir
hard Ufage) a Certificate unto. y$u.r Excellency of their
gosd Behaviour.

W% affeSl not *» injift upon a particular Man,
neither *tvAitld tye ''have dealt fo plainly with 'your
Excellency^ had we. not fo vehemently dcjired the mu-
tual Amity and Correfyondency of both Nations might
bt CQ&mued't and that the S'ora 'being opened and
thoroughly fearchedj iht Wound thereby might the
better b& cured.

Ifa pray your Rxcelkncy, ttpGn the like Octe/ions,
fj be plain and frcz with jl/; and thai* you ilriti fe-
risi^fJy confidtr and examine the Pr/mifes ; that you
will pleafe to coubtanaacz our People in their jufl
Comptaznts, and to giv& them tin.dy Redrefs, where-
y they be not camp ell.. I fo for fake their fi(ibitationsy
urfcs

&•
ibeje

;

*a undue Courfcs through Dcfpair : And
Requejls we move with great Cynfidente- of ob^

^ENGLAND. 89

t as proceeding frsm thofe who, upon all good An, *i Car, I.
nSj dejire to approve themfelvtt. t '6*S'-^

The humble Servants Q^ober>

York, $*.}, ity.

of your Excellency,

RICHARD QARLEY, T«o«. BOURCHIER.

AR. INGRAM, JOHN SAVILLE.

Ro. BARWIJ. DARCY WENTWORTH.

W. ARMJTAGZ, THOS. STOCKDALE.

Jo. BRIGHT. JA. CHALLONER.
Jo.

FARRER, CHR. LEGARD.

ASTELL

PEIRSE.

Jo. WASTELL. j THO*. CHALLQNER,

C«R,

/

The Earl pf ^EYEM'? Anfaer,.

^ Gentlemen,

Received a Letter of your^ dated at York the His
fourth of October, and in it an Account of tie Anf
Country People's Grievances again/I our Army* I
have not been many Days from them^ and am exceed-
ing forry tQ bear that fo Jhtrt a Tim.e hath bred fo
great a Change in their Behaviour. My Care hath
ever been, and /hall be, to preferve them in Order j
jnd the Country frem Opprejflion ; and as I bavf ever
been ready tq bear tbeju/i Complaints of the Meant/I ,
and to give them Satisfaftion and Reparation , fo I
/ball make it my Reqveji tQ you, that all ComplainU
tf ihefe Kinds may be rea,dy at my Return nn)o the
Army^ which for that very Caufe I Jhall ha/ten*
and y$u Jliall fee Redrefs of them to the full -t which
}s all for- the prefent can be fqid to you at this Dif-
tunct, by

Your very affeftipnate Friend,

L E V E N,

'|"he Lo|ds put off thp Consideration of all thcfe
fitters and Refolutions of the Commons for two
Days, and ordered all their Members to be (ym-
moned n?ainft that Tim?, Accordingly,

Off.

T^be Parliamentary H r s T o R v

Off. 17. All the above-mentioned Particulars

being entered into, it was objected, That, by an

O&ober. Order of both Houfes of the 24th of Ottober, 1644,
what Doubts or Objections (hall arife in either
Houfe, upon Confideration of any Thing pro-
pounded concerning the Scots Armies in England
and Ireland^ the fame fhall be committed to the
Committee of both Houfes, appointed to treat
with the Scots Commiflioners ; that, • after Debate
with the Scots Commiflioners, and full Under-
ftanding of their Meaning, the Refult thereof may
be reported to both Houfes. And it was debated,
Whether the Matters of thefe Papers and Letters
fhould be communicated to the Scots Commif-
fioners by the Members of both Houfes of the
Committee of both Kingdoms, before any Deter-
mination of this Houfe therein ? And this QuelHon
was defired to be put : But a Queftion was put firft,
Whether thefe Words, According to the Order of
the 2^tb of October, 1644, Jball be added to the
^uejlion ; and the Votes being equal, nothing was
concluded, and this Bufmefs was ordered to be
taken into farther Confideration the next Morn-
ing.

Ott. 1 8. The Debate on this important Bufi-
nefs was refumed by the Lords ; and it was firft
carried, That the Words, According to the Order of
ef the 2^ih of October /«/?, fhould not be ad-
ded ; then the former Qucftion being again put,
about communicating thefe Matters to the Scots
Ali the foregoing Commiflioners, before any Determination was
Kefclutions ot made in that Houfe ; it pafled in the Negative,
the Common'. After w^|ch every one of the aforefaid Refilutiom
agreed to by tat. • > . ^ ' e ,, . J .

l^rds, ot trie v-ommons were ieverally read, and put

to the Queftion, and all of them, unanimoufly,
agreed to.

General Pointz'3 Off. 2O. Letters from General Point* were
Vi<fWy near read, being an Account of another great Victory
1 ^y him sgainft the King's Forces near

gf ENGLAND. 91

Sherburne, in Yorkjhire. For this another Day of An- « Car- r-
Thankfgiving was appointed. ^L^L-s

Oftober.

No News from Sir Thomas Fairfax having come
for a long Time, the Houfe began to be uneafy
about that General; when this Day, Off. 23, they
were relieved by a Letter from him, which was read
in the Houfe of Lords as follows :

For the Right Honourable the Lord GREY of
Wark^ Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS pr»

Tempore.

My Lord,

Qlnce the Army came further Weft, I have not General Fairfax's
*^ given your Lordjhips an Account of the
thereof: Upon, the Arinys Advance from Chard
the Enemy marched with 2OOO Horfe, with In-
tention, as we received Intelligence, to break thro"
and join with the Forces about Oxford. They fell
into the Quarters of our Dragooners, where they
took fame few Prifoners, and returned immediately.
The whole Army advanced that Day after the Enemy
tt Honyton, where our Horfe lay in the Fields all
Night to watch their Motions ; but coming nearer
to their Quarters next Day, all the Enemy's Horfe
drew over the River Ex ; upon which River,
within three or four Miles of Exeter, / quartered
both Harfe and Foot, the better to keep the Enemy
from making Attempt to march Eaftward. IVith the
Refidue of the Army I marched to Tiverton, whi-
•iher Major -General Mafley was fent with fame
Regiments^ but found the Governor refohed to hold
cut. It was, after Consultation^ agreed on to Jlorm
the Place, the Seafon of the Tear not admitting of
much Time to be fpcnt about it ; and Yejlerday, after
Sermon, having called a Council of War to order the
Manner of the Storm, the Gunner with a great
Shot broke the Chain, whereby the Drawbridge fell
down, and the Soldiers immediately entered and got
aver the Works with little Oppofition : The Enemy fled
into the Church and Cajile for their Security, ivhere
2 they

92 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. *i. Car. I. they craved Quarter for their Lives. We took Sir
L *5' Gilbert Talbot, Colonel, the Governor of the Plact,
an^ about 2OO Prifonens more^ four Pieces of Ord±
nance, and thirty Barrels of Powder. The Works
were very regular andflrong.

The Army advanced this Day towards the Enemy
Weftward ; and as there is further Occafion your
Lord/hip Jhall not fail of an Account from

Your

Tmrton, Oft. 40,

*6*5- Humble Servtnt,

T. F A I R F A X,

V.KI.O ^' Hereupon the Lords ordered. That a Letter be
written by their Speaker to Sir Thomas Fairfax, to
give him Thanks, in the Name of that Houfe, for
his great Care and Pains in the Condu& of the
Army ; accordingly a Letter was drawn, read, and
approved of, and ordered to be fent as follows :

For which the For the Rt. Hon. Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX, Knight,
Lords morn him General of the Forces raifed by the Parliament.
Thanks.

Noble Sir,

Y Am commanded by the Lords^ the Peers in Par-
liament) to return you Thanks for jhe great Care^
Courage and ConduR of your Army ; nor it there any
Thing more acceptable than the good Service^ where-
with it hath pleafed God to fecond your remark-
able Endeavours at Tiverton, the Continuance of
which we fhall incsjjantly de/ire* and implore the
Aid of the Almighty to put a Period to theft un-
happy Wors.

Your very affectionate Friend,

GREY of Work, Speaker of the Hqufe
of Peers pro Temport.

Oft. 25. A Letter came from the Lord
tin, out of S:f.-hndy intimating, That, at laft, the
Con ••:'..-: Boners. had met the Scots at St.
i

*f E N G L A N t>. 93

s, and continued the Treaty with theni for An. »i cat. I.
fome Time: That the latter were gone towards l645>
Glafgovu, to hold a Parliament there, on the very oftob r
Day Montrofe had fummoned a pretended one to
meet at the fame Place : That they had done fio-
thing concerning Garrifons but what he was bring-
ing with him td lay before the Parliament.

OR. 28. A Thankfgiving Was ordered by
both Houfes, for more Victories in Wales ; as the
reducing of the Counties of Pembroke, Caermar*
thent and Cardigan, to the Obedience of the Par-
liament, by which his Majefty loft almoft all his appointed for the
Intereft in thofe Parts. An<l to (hew to what a Parliament's
diftrefTed Condition the King's Affairs were then fTwakT
redutedj we here fubjoin a Series of Letter*, which
were taken in the late Fight at Sberbur*e.
They were delivered to the Lords at a Conference,
and this Day, Oft. 30^ read in their Houfe. As
fome of thefe Letters were copied into the Lords
'Journals, from Originals of the King's own Hand-
Writing, and others are as authentic, they muft be
allowed Curiofities, fmce we meet with none of
them in the Cottefliem of the Times except that
tg Prince Rupert.

A Copy of the KING'S Letter^ under his ow* Hand,
to the Lord Marquis of ORMOND.

Caerdiffe, July $i, 1645.
Ormotid,

JT hath plf&ftd God, by many fuccejftve Ms/or- An intercepU4
•* tunes, to reduce my Affairs of late from a very pro- Letter fr«m the
fperous Condition to Co low and Ebb, a- to be a perfefi

rr- • I r n v* , T • J I • q

Trial of all Men s Integrity to me ; ana you bting a
Ptrfon whom I confider as mojj intirely and gene-
taujly refohed to J} and and fall with your King, /
do principality rely upon you for your utmojl AJJiji^nce
in my prefent Hazards. I have commanded D'gby
<to acquaint you at largt with all Particular) of mj

Oftober.

'The Parliamentary HISTORY

Condition, what I have to hope, trujl to, or fear ;
wherein you'll find, that if my Expectations of Re-
lief out of Ireland be not in feme good Meafure, and
fpeedily, anfwered, I am likely to be reduced to great
Extremities.

I hope feme of thofe ExpreJJes, which I fent you
fince my Misfortune by the Battle of Nafeby, are
come to you ; and I am therefore confident that you are
in a good Forwardnefe for the fending over to
me a confiderable Supply of Men, Artillery, and Am-
munition. All that I have to add is, That the Ne-
cejjity of your fpeedily performing them is made
much more prejjing by new Difajters ; fe that I ab-
felutely command you, what Hazard feever that
Kingdom may run by it, perfenally to bring me all
the Forces of what Sort feever you can draw from
thence, and leave the Government there during your
Abfence in the fittejl Hands that you Jhall judge to
discharge it ;.for I may not want you here to com-
mand theje Forces which will be brought from thence,
and fuch as from hence jhall be joined to them : But
\ou muft not under/land this as a PermiJJion to you ta
grant to the Irifh, in cafe they will not otherwife
have a Peace, any Thing more in Matter of Religion
than what I have allowed you already ; except only in
feme convenient Parishes, where the much greater Num-
ber are Papi/ls, I give you Power to permit them tt.
have feme Places which they may ufe as Chapels for their
Devotions, if there be no other Impediment for ob-
taining a Peace ; but I will rather chufe to fuffer all
Extremities, than ever to abandon my Religion, and
particularly either to Englifh or Irifh Rebels ; tt
which EJfeft I have commanded Digby to write
to the Agents that were employed hither, giving you
Power to caufe to deliver, or fupprefe, the Letters as.
jsu Jhall find bcjl for my Service.

To conclude : If the Irifh fn*ll fe unworthily take
Advantage of my weak Condetion, as to prefs me tt
that which I cannot grant with a fafe Cdnfeience,
and without it to rejefl a Peace,, / command y&u,- if

'.* aw \- you

^'ENGLAND. 95

you can, to procure a further Ceffhtion ; if not, to make An- *^ Car- *
Juch Divifions as you can among ft them ; and rather J5> t

leave it to the Chance of War between them and thofe Oflober.
Forces which you cannot draw from thence to my Affill-
tince, than to give my Confent to anyfuch Allowance of
Popery, as mujl evidently bring Dejlrufiion to that
Profe/ton, which, by the Grace of God, I Jhall ever
maintain through all Extremities. I knoiu, Ormond,
that I impofe a very hard Tajk upon you : but if God
profper me, you will be an happy and glorious Subject ;
if otherwise, you will perijh nobly and generouJJy, witlt
and for him who is

Your afiured Friend,

C.R.

A Copy of the KING'S Letter to Prince RUPERT.
Nephew, Caerdiffe, July 31, 1645.

CT'H I S is occajicned by a Letter of yours that /^Another to
-* Duke of Richmond fnewed me Yejternight ; and, P«nee aupwt.
firft) I ^Jfure y°u-> that I have been, and ever will be,
very careful to advertife you of my Refolutionsfofoon as
they were taken \ and If I enjoined you Silence to that
which was no Secret, it was not my Fault, for I thought
it one ; and I am fur e it ought to have been fo.

Now, as for your Opinion of my Bufmefs, and
your Counfel thereupon, if I hua any other Quarrel
but the Defence of my Religion, Crown, and Friends,
you had full Reafon for your Advice ; fcr I confefs
that, fpeaking either a> a mere Soldier or Statef-*
wan, / mujl fay that there is no Probability but of
my Ruin ; yet, as a Chriflian, I mujl tell yon that-
God will net fiffir Rebels and 'Traitors to profper,
nor his>Cfitifato be overthrown ; and w hatfoever per-
fenal Pun.j';:>;, \t it £.uil phafe him to. infiicl upon
me, mitji .ie repine, much left give oiw

this

(a) This Lftfcr is dated dagufl 5, in Rcy/lot'* Edition of th^
Kir.g's l-forks} in .vhich alfo the PafTaac in the RCK&B Characl«»
between CrAtchet' is omitted : But no Notice is therein takeai-fihe
•tkrr Lttter i.

$6 tie Parliamentary Hisf oriV

An. a i. Car. !.//;>/* Quarrel, [dnd (b) there is as little Quejlionthd
a Compofition with them, at this Time, is nothing elfe
but a Submijjion jj which, by the Grace of God, I am
refohed again/?; tohdtfoevtr it cojl me ; for I know my
ObKgations to be, both in Conscience and Hontur, nei±
ther to abandon God's Caufe, injure my Sticee/fbrs, nor
forfake my Fritnds.

Indeed I cannfo fatter myfetf with Exptflaiion of
good Succefs, more than this, to end my Days with
Hanour and a good Confer eft te ; wbuh obliges me to
continue my Endeavours, as not dtfpairing but that
God may yet, in due Time, avenge his own Caufe j
though I muft avow to all my Friends, that he wht
vjillftay with me at ihis Time, mujl expeft and refofoe
either to die for a good Caufe, or, which is worfe, t9
live as miserable in maintaining it as the violent Rage
of Infultlng Rebels can make* him:

Having thus truly, and I believe impartially, JlateH
my Cafe unto you, and plainly told you my pofitive Refo-
tions, which, by the Grace of God, I will not alter,
they being neither light iy or Juddenly grounded, 1 earneji~
ty defire you ns ways to hanter after Treaties ; aj/uring
you, as low as / am, I will do no more than was offer-
ed in my Name at UxbVidge \ nnfejjing, that it were
as great a J^firacle wat iney fhould agree to fo much
Reafon, as that / jkoul'd be, within a Month, in the
fame Condition as I was immediately before the Battle
ff/'Nafeby. Therefore, for God't Sake, let us not
fatter curfelves with ihefc Ccnteits ; and, believe me,-
.the very Imagination that you are dtjlrctts of a Treaty
£for thatj at this Time, and a Subffliflion is all onej
will but lofc me fo much the foo'nen Wherefore, as
you Lve me, (iuhetj<.cver ysu bdvt already dene) ap-
ply your Dtfcourfe hereafter according tc my Rtfolutiyri
tind Judgment.

As for the Irifti ; / ajfttre you they J>dll net eheai
me, but it is poffible they may ftzeit thffnfthes ; far i>e
ajjured, that ivhdl / have refused to the Kniiliftif
/ witt net grant to the Irifh Rebch ; never trufling

to

(I) In the CPpf . of tb'fl btttef, tlplten in Lord Clarendit-., (V«l.
Fv. p. €790 thit Pillage is Emitted, as \\ eu a: whir io.w^ » U thV

^ENGLAND. 97

JP» that Kind of People, of what Nation foever, more An. 21. Car. I.
than I fee by their Actions ; and 1 am finding fuch t J6*$'
a Difpatch to Ormond, as, I am fure, will pleafe you Oftob«r. ~~
and all hone/1 Men ; a Copy whereof, by the next Op-
portunity, you Jhall have.

Lajlly, ^e confident that I would not have put you nor
myfelfto the Trouble of this long Letter, had I not a
great EJIimation of you, and a full Confidence of your
Friend/hip to,

C. R.

The KING'S Letter to the Marquis of ORMOND,
,t concerning the Marquis of CJLANRICKARD, dated
vMay 13, 1645.

1 Right Trufty and Right Well-beloved Coufini
and Caunfellor, we greet you well.

being fully fatisfied of the good AffeRion to A Third ap-
our Service of our Right Trujiy and Entirely- Jjj,mi"j J clan-
•beloved Coujin^ Ulrick Marquis of Clanrickard, and rieSd'V 'priv
conceiving it to be much for our Service^ -the Addition Counfeiioria
<f a Perftm vfhis Ability to our Council Board in Ire-
land, are gracioufly pleafed, and do her'$y require and
authorize you, to admit him into our Privy Council
there ; and that you adminijler to' him the ufuai Oaths
•of 'a Minijler of State in that our Kingdom ; and as
for any other Osth to be on this Ckcafion adminijler ed
unto him, our Pleafure is, that you obferve the Form
txpreffed in the I yh Article of our Graces andhjlruc*.
tions. fent over unto our Deputy and Council of that
Kingdom, by the Agents, in the Tear 1628, without re-
quiring the faid Marquis to take any other Oath ; the
Statute, i Eliz. <?r *ny other Statute, Order, or Inflec-
tion, to- the contrary, notwithjlanding.. And you are to
caufe him to have and enjoy all Privileges, Prehe-
fainences, and Bother Benefits belonging to one of our
Council there j, ap^ for your fo doing this-fnall be your
Warrant.

Given at our Court at Droitwicb the
of May, 1645.

VOL. XIV. ; G- ' " -' - A

*fhe Parliamentary HISTORY

A Draught of a Letter to the Marquis

for Commiflions, &c. dated jfcfoy 22, 1645.

oaober. Right xrufty and Right Entirely-beloved Cou-
fm and Counfellor, we greet you well.

Another eon- TJfHereas, upon the Treaty of Peace, you did for

cerning granting rr ^ amongjl other Things, and in our Name,

the^'ma^Ca- aSree Wlt^ ^f6 W^J treated with you in the Behalf

tholicks in that of the Confederated Roman-Catholicks, that they

Kingdom. Jhould continue the Po/eJJion of fuch of eur Cities,

Towns, Forts, and Cajlles, which they now have

under their Obedience, until! there be fuch a Settle-

ment as upon the f aid Treaty is agreed to be done ;

yet fo as they be commanded, ruled, and governed in

Chief by fuch as we, or our Chief Governor or Go-

vernors of that our Kingdom ^"Ireland, for the Time

being, Jhall appoint :

And whereas you did promife for us, and in our
Name, That we would grant CommiJJions to, and
appoint fuch Perfon and Perfons, as Jhall be agreed,
en the Treaty, for the executing of fuch Commands,
Rule, or Government, to continue untill all the Ar-
ticles agreed on to be pajjed in Parliament, Jhall be
accordingly pajjed ; and that we would ijfue Com-
miJJions to fuch Perfons, as Jhall be agreed on the
-Treaty, for the punijhing of fuch capital Offences
as have happened Jince the i ^.th Day of September,
1643; or Jhould henceforward, during the Time
Mforejaid, happen ; and for the ordering of fucb
Things as Jhould be for the Peace and Tranquillity
if that Kingdom, and the well-ordering of the Army,
and the raifing and providing of Means for the
Support thereof: We being very willing and dcfirous
th.it as well that, as whatfoever elf e Jhall be under-
taken by you upon the Treaty, be punctually obfervecf,
have thought Jit, by thefe our Letters, to authorize
an i require you to caufe Letters Patent, under the
Great Seal of that our Kingdom, to be pajjed unit
you, which may authorize and give Power to you to
ijfue fuch Co?nniiJJions, under the Great Seal of that
eur Kingdom, as you have upon the Treaty for us,

and
I

ef ENGLAND*. £9

and in our Name promifed to our fa'td Subjects, or An. zi Car. I.
which, upon the faid Treaty, you Jhall hereafter pro- l64&» . ^
mife unto them ; and fuch other Comrnijftons, af-
ter the Conclusion of the Peace in that our King-
dom^ as you Jhall think fit for the advancing of the
Natives of that our Kingdom, without Exceptionr
to any Places of Command, Honour , Profit, and
Truft in our Armies there, according to their refpec-
tive Merits and Abilities ; and that by you no Dif-
ference be made therein between them and our other good
Subjects, according to the Anjwer made by you on our
Behalf to the Englifh Proportion.

In which refpefiive CommiJJions you are to caufe
fuch Grants and Non-Obfervants to be inferted,
as may remove all Impediments and Hinderances
whatfoevcr, which do or may d 'fable any of our faid
Subjects to exercife the faid Places ; and for your
Jo doing this Jhall be unto you, and other our Chief
Governor and Governors for the "Time being, and to
our Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal there for
the T'ime being, and to all others whom it may con-
cern, fufficient Warrant, notwithstanding any fur-
ther Ufage, ReJ}raint, Order or Atf of Parlia-
ment to the contrary : And fo we bid you heartily
farewell.

Given at our Court at Betton, the 22cl of May^
1645.

His MAJESTY'S Letter, in his own Hand, to the

Marquis of ORMOND;
Ormond,

If Find by yours to Digby^ that you are fomewbat
•*• cautious not to conclude the Peace, without, at
leaft, the Concurrence of the Council there '; which,
if you could procure, I conftfs it would be fo much
the better ; and therefore I have fent herewithall
another Letter to you, to be communicated to them,
which takes off thofe ReJIriflicns which I laid for-
merly upon you in a public Letter ; but the Irifh
Peace is of fuch abfolute Necejjity, that no Compli-
ments or particular Refpefl whatfocver mujl hinder
it i wherefore, I abfolutely command you, ivithcut
G 2 Reply

*The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. ?i Car. I. Reply, to execute the Direction I fent you the 2jth of
l645- February loft, giving you Leave to get the dpproba-
*'on °f Council, fo as, and no otherwife, that by
feeking it, you do not hazard the Peace, or fo much as
an Affront^ by their foolijh refufing to concur with you ;
promifmg you, upon the Jfard of a King, that if God
profpers me, you Jhall be fo far from receiving any Pre-
judice by doing this fo necejjary a Work, though alone,
that I will account it as one of iJ:e chief ejl of your
greateft Services to me j and accordingly you Jhall be
thought upon by

Ycur allured Friend,

Another Leteer^ dated Oftober id, 1645,
Newark (c).

yucfan Anony- T Hope mine from Bridgnorth is mifcarried. It
n..-u;Le'terftoni J. was more melancholy than, upon fecond Thoughts,
7 would ha-ve written ; but the Truth is, the Lofs of my
Lord of Litchfield, and fome other gallant Men, and
in the Nick of that the Rebels printing Books of my
Lord Montrofe 's total Overthrow, had put me into a
Fit of deeper JMelanchcly and Defpair than I have
ever before leenfubjett to.

Since that, I have received ExpreJ/es from my
Lord Montrofe, wherein he relates the Truth of bis
late Misfortune on the I yh of September, at Philip-
haugh, near Selkirk, wherein he loft, in all, but
2OO Men ; and bids us be ajjured, that yet, ere
Winter, hz will be in England with a gallant Army.
IVe do fmce receive daily Confirmations, from all
Parts in the North, that he hath routed David
Ivcficy ; his other Farces, then abfent, being come
::p to him \ for at Philiphaugh he was cnly a fmall
Party , invited to the Borders by Roxbrough and
ethers, vjho betrayed him. We Jhatl no fooner re-
ceive an Exprefs of his good Condition, but we Jhall

endeavour

ft) There is no Name tn this Letter ; fcut, from Lord C'-rea-'cn't
Aicmnt if the King's Affairs at this Tim-, it leems to hare occi

of E N G L A N P,

endeavour to get him : In the mean Time here we re/I
about Newark, (the unliklieji Place to be befeeged, and
t,)e ftrongeft if it be, and from whence the King cannot
be hindered from marching away with his Horfe at any
Time) whither we marched from Chirke without any
Interruption-, Pointz having, it feems, been too much
broken to follow us, and opinionated, fence the Siege of
Chefter. If he gives us Leifure till we learn the Cer-
tainty of Montrofe, he will much oblige us ; if not^
I ho^e, with that Addition, which we may receive from
this Garrifon, we may be able to fight with him for our
Pa/age.

We are in hourly Expectation of an Anfwer from the
Scots Army to thife Overture* made u> to them, where-
of I advertised you formerly, and we have Gxufe fa
hope well of that Negotiation.

It were impertinent to trouble you fr.otri hence with
the Weftcrn News, which certainly 'will come much
f re/her to you from the Original*

If Goring hath given Maflfey fuch a. Defeat as it
th

believed, and that iPairfax hath drawn back his
again/I him, there will then bz a fair Bhw for thf.
fetting us as high again as ever, / hope that- our Mif-
fartunes will not make you faint there, in filiciting all
pojftble Supplies of Monies-, Arms, and Ammunition ;
for whatever fuddcn Damps may feize us upon unex-
pefled Differs, I hope, upon the Recollection, we Jhall
none of us doubt but Gofl will, in the End, magnify his.
Jujlice in the Profperity of his Maje/iy's Caufe.
Whatever happens, let her Majejly be ajjured, that /,
in the Difcharge of my Duty, Jhall Jiili make good that
Confidence which Jhe hath been pleafed- t& have of me^
and that Part whith. becomes the Title of

Your perfe£l FrienJ.

The Lords 'Journals add, That there were di-
vers other Letters communicated at the Conference,
but the fix foregoing were the principal ; and that
the fame Day, Oft. 30, their Speaker acquainted
the Houfc wi.th a Letter from the Scots Commu-
G 3 fioncrs

%be Parliamentary HISTORY

'An. 2 1 Car. I. fioners with a Paper incloled, which were read>
u I(*5; J as follows:
October.

For the Right Honourable the SPEAKER of the

Houfe of PEERS.
My Lord,

have received Intelligence from bis Excel-

- lency the Earl °f Leven> that a Party °faboui

con- loop Horfe, under the Command of Sir Marmaduke
earning the State Langdale and the Lord Digby, is marched from
''c!11 SkiPton fbrougb Lancashire, info Cumberland ;
upon Notice whereof he hath fent the mojl of his
Cavalry to purfue them : And we are alfo advertifed,
that feven Ships are arrived upon the Coajl of Cum-
berland from Ireland. 'His Excellency doth further
acquaint us, That he hath given a Jirifi Order to
all the Officers and Soldiers under his Command not
'to exaSt any Monies, or to lay any AJfeJfments upon
the Country j but to content themfelves with free
Quarters, not exceeding the Proportion formerly a-
greed upon by the Committee of both Kingdoms ; and>
'that it might appear how dejlrous he was this Jbould be
carefully obferved, he hath fent his Quarter- Majler-
General to the Committee of York, earneftly defer ing
them to appoint fuch as they Jhould think fit^ to join
with others nominated by his Excellency, to make a fair
Survey of all the Quarters of the Scots Army, that
whatfoever Jhould be found amifs might be redrejjed at
their own Sight.

In the mean Time he is advertifed of a Declara-
tion to be publijhed by the Commiffioners of the County
<3/"York, wherein it is declared to the People, that
there is a Courfe fettled for the Pay of the Scots Army^
'upon which it 'is to depend; and all Conjlablcs and
other Perfons whatsoever are prohibited to levy any
Money or Provijions for the Ufe of that Army.

It is well 'known to the honourable Houfes of.
Parliament, that notivitkftanding they have, by Ordi-
nance of Parliament, fettled a Courfe for the Pay
of that Army, how incjfettiial thefe Means have
proved \ and that the Scots Army have on!v received
«ne Month's Pay, advanced by the City of London,

of ENGLAND. 103

for thefe eight Months pajl : And we cannot under/land An. ai Car.r,
what that Army Is to depend on, fence the Courfe fettled
by Ordinance of Parliament affords them no Sub/tft-
ance, and, in the mean Time, free Quarter not allow-
ed them, nor any other Means whereby they mayfubfejl't
andunlefs they take free Quarter, or be otherwlfe pro-
vided for, we cannot fee how It can be avoided but that
they /hall either Jlarve or dljband.

IVe have herewith fent a Copy of that Declaration,
and do earnejlly intreat the Houfes of Parliament to con-
fider to what Straits and Extremities that Army is
driven, what Difcouragements they meet with in the
Public Service 't and that they would be pleafed to take
fome fpeedy Courfe, whereby that Army may be enter-
tained, and the Inconveniences which may enfue
upon fuch a Declaration fpeedily prevented. All
which we offer for no other End, than that a good Un-
der/landing may be kept between the Kingdoms, and that
Army enabled to profecute the Service again/I the com-
mon Enemy. We remain,

Your very affectionate Friends
and Servants,

Worcefter-Houfe,

oa. as, j64S. LOUDON.

BALMERINO.
H. KENNEDY-

The Declaration mentioned in the foregoing Letter
was as follows :

By the STANDING COMMITTEES of the three Rid-
ings of the County of York (iffembled together.

« T T PON Confideration of the continual Com- A Dcclarat]on of
\^J plaints of the Inhabitants of this County, t^e commifii«n-
tcuching the intolerable Burthens impofed upon crs of Afleffment
them by the Commanders in the Scots Army, it againft the Scots
is declared, by the fpecial Ordinance of Parlia-
ment, That there is a Courfe fettled for the Pay
of ths faid Army, upon which it is to depend,

and

104 2& Parliamentary HISTORY

An. * i Car. I. * and whereof this County is to pay no more than
the certain Proportion limited by the faid Ordi-
nante, and that to be levied by certain Perfons,
nominated and authorized as Committees for that

* Purpofe ; and that this County ought not to be

* charged with the Entertainment of the Scots

* Army, further or otherwife than by the faid Or-

* dinance is directed ; and therefore if any Coiir

* {tables, or other Perfons whatfoever, (hall aflefs

* or levy any Money or Provifions, or (hall exe-

* cute any Warrant for fuch Levy, by any Autho-

* rity whatfoever, other than from fuch Commit-

* tees, or other Perfons in that Behalf intrufted by

* the High Court of Parliament, the Perfons fo

* tranfgreffing and invading the Liberty of1 the Sub-
' je<5ts of England muft expecl to give Account of

* their Doings, and muft anfwer the fame unto the

* Parliament ; which the faid Committee have

* thought fit to publifh, to the End that all Parties

* concerned may take due Notice thereof.'

York the 23 0/"O6lober, 1645.

November. The firft Occurrence of this Month
worth our Notice, is "a Letter to the Parliament,
from Prince Rupert, whom the King had ftrippecl
of all his Commiffions about fix Weeks before on
account of his furrendering of Brijlol to General
Fairfax (a).

To the Right Hon. the LORDS and COMMONS
aflembled in the Parliament at WeftminRer.

My Lords and Gentlemen ,

Prince Rupert's 7 J AV IN G determined with my Brother Prince

Letter to the ^TZ Maurice, my Lord Hawley, Lord Gerrard,

K^vft'he^Ri? hard Willis, and many Officers and Gent le-

Kingdom. •' men of £>uality, ta leave this Kingdom, being al-

together disengaged from that Service we have been

in j it hath given me the Occafion to defire this Fa-

vour-

(a) Thr King's Letter to Prnce Rtpert on this Occafion is given
US by Lord Clartndon; (V !. JV. 8wc. Ldlt. p, 694.) bat is not
pun ej in .lut Monarch's Wo-ki,

of E N G L A N D. 105

vour from you, that you would grant a Pafs for me. Aa* ai Car. I.
tny Brother Maurice, and tbofe Noblemen and Gentle- . V*S* -*
men that come along with me, together with their Ser- November.
•vants, Horfcs, and all Necejfaries, to go beyond the
Seas, or to retire to their Houfes, as Jhall be mojl for
their Conveniency (b) : And 1 engage my Honour ', "for
myfelfand them, that no Aft of HojUlity Jhall be done
by us ; and that there is no other Defign in our going
than to go whither our particular Occajions and De-
fires Jhall lead us. I have therefore addrejjed unto you
this Gentleman, Lieutenant-Colonel Ofborne, who can
ire you that my Intentions are no other than what
have here profejjed ; and, by him, I Jhall ex-
peft the Return of my Defires, wherein you will
oblige,

Your Friend and Servant,

W«verton, O£l. 19,

'645- RUPERT.

This Requeft of the Prince's being taken into
Confideration the fume Day, both Houfes agreed
to grant a Pafs as defired, upon the Conditions
exprelTed in the Letter. But at the fame Time a
Committee of Lords and Commons were appoint-
ed to confider of the Manner of this Pafs, and re-
port the fame to the Houfes.

A day or two after the Committee brought In
a Form of a Pafs, which was read and approved
on, along with the Inftru&ions for thofe that ihculd
take the Engagement required j which was, Ntyej:
more to bear Arms, or a& any Thing a-
gainft both Houfes of the Parliament of England,
or againft the Eftates of the Parliament of Scotland,
or againrt any of their Forces in any of the King's
Dominions*

Nov.

f*i Mr. Wlitlotle wrifes, ' That the Number of thcfe were abc-ut
400, tfic mear.eft whrrcof was a Ciptain, who had laid down their
Commifiiont, delVred the Kiji|i, and bnook iVm to Wortvn-Hcufe,
jftO cccn Miles from Wruarit, where il.ey ftw,od upon their Guard.

Rltmoriah, p. iSQ»

io6 The "Parliamentary His TORY

An 21 car. 1. jvw. 6. The following Letter from Major-
t l6^' General Pointz was read, dire&ed to the Lord
November. Grey of War&e, Speaker of the Houfe of Peers.

My Lord,

jAm to render your Lordjhip tins brief Account of
Cen. Pointz's 2 wfrat ;f pieafe(i Q0^ to fa for us ;„ tfje fate Storm-

Account of his • /• 01 i ,- i TT r o i IT • r

*o.mmg Shel- tng °f ohelford-Houfe on Saturday. Having jent a.

ford Houfe. ftrong Party of Horfe and Dragoons to attend the
King's Motions, in cafe he fecks to break away from
Newark, / advanced towards Shelford, where Colo-
mi Rofliter joined with me. I prefently clapt down
before it, and took divers of their Men Prifoners, who
were got into the Church. This Day, being prepared
for a Storm, I fummoned the Houfe, whereto tin young
Governor (b) returned a very peremptory Anfwer ;
whereupon we fell on with much Resolution on all Sides9
and were entertained for half an Hour with like Cou-
rage ; but at length they were forced to leave that hot
Service. They were in all near 200, mojl of tht
Queen's Regiment being there ; about 40 of them ffcap-
ed with their Lives, and are brought Prifoners into this
Town, the reft put to the Sword. The Governor, being
dangeroujly Jhot and wounded, was Jlript for dead ;
but fame Officers took Pity on the young Gentleman and
got him off ; per adventure this may recover him. The
London Brigade behaved themfehes very faithfully
in this Service ; the reft wanted no Courage ; to
Godbe thePraife.

Our next Dejign is againft Wiverton-Houfe, and
1 hope the jirft News will be that it is reduced; how-
ever I Jhall ufe my faithful Endeavours therein, and
in all other Refpefts continue,

My Lord,

Your obedient

and faithful Servant till Death,

Bingham, Nov. 3,

'64S- SYDENHAM POINTZ.

P.S.

(a) A Son of the Earl of CtefluftU, Owner of Sbtlfert.

of E N G L A N D.

P. S. The King is Jlill at Newark. / have
flrong Party that waits his Motion.

Sir, I hold it necejjary that Shelford-Houfe be con- November
tinned a Garrifon '////Newark be reduced, 'till which
Time I defer e your Order] for Lieutenant-Colonel Carle-
ton, who behaved himfelf faithfully in the Public Ser-
vice, to be the Governor thereof.

The Speaker of the Houfe of Lords was ordered
to write a Letter to General Pcintz, to give him
Thanks from that Houfe for his good Service and
Faithfulnefs.

Nov. 1 1 . The Lord Jffiarton and the reft of the
Englijh Commiflioners being returned out of Scot-
land* this Day his Lordfhip delivered in to the
Houfe an Account of their Negotiation, which
was comprifed in the following Letters and
Memorials :

For the Right Hon. the COMMISSIONERS of the
Hon. Houfes of the Parliament of England, for
the prefent at Berwick.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

T/ffE are dl a* defirous to meet with your Lord- Lord Wharton'*
* Jhips as you can be, and as forry for the not doing Narrative of the
of it i but it was not in our Power fooner to have a -"£°tiatlon4; be'

J - '. if cf ci— r tween the tn-

Meetmg, as we have, from Time to Time, reprejent- glifo and Scots
ed unto you, before God gave our Forces that happy CommiiTioner?,
ftaay againji the Rebels at Philiphaugh ; ^'
that Time we have been necejjitated to be with the
Army, both for raijing the Country and profecuting
the ViRory ; and although the Stay of thofe, that are
by the Parliament appointed to treat with your Lord-
Jhips, be very necejjary at this Time, yet we have
'appointed them to be with you at Berwick, as you
defire, on Monday the 6th of this Month, at Two
o'Cloct, which was the foonefi that we could pofjibly
Imagine they were able to be there, fo many of them
being fo far dijlant ; in the mean 'Time we have

fcnt

ffie Parliamentary HISTORY

loS

An. ii Car. I. Jent you a Copy of the CommiJJion which the Parlia-

• l645' • ment &ave fe *^at are aPP°'inte^ to treat w'lt^ y°u »

Horember ^e cont^ufve Power is in the Committee of E/latesy
who have the Power to give Inftruftions. We are
confident the Quorum of both Committees will be near
Berwick at that Time. We rejly

Perth. Sept. *7,
1645.

Your very affe&ionate Friends
and Servants,

CRAWFORD and

LINDSAY.
TULLIBARDINE.
LAUDERDALE.

FlNDLATER.

BALCARRAS.

BUCHAN.

DALHOUSE.
COUPAR.
CRAIGIEHALL.
PATRICK HEPBURN.
JA. BRUCE.
ARCH. SIDESARF.

The Parliament of SCOTLAND'S COMMISSION,
mentioned in the foregoing Letter.

AT Perth, the yth Day of Augujl^ the Year
of God 1645, the Eftates of Parliament,
now convened in the fourth Seflion of this firft
Triennial Parliament, by virtue of the laft A& of
the laft Parliament, holden by his Majefty and
the three Eftates, Anno 1641, confidering that the
Honourable Houfes of the Parliament of Eng-
land have, by their Letters of tne Day
of , declared that they have made choice
of fome Commiffioners, and authorifed them
with Power to repair into this Kingdom, and to
treat on fuch Things as are intrufted to them,
and concerning the Good and Intereft of both
Kingdoms ; and finding it expedient, for this Ef-
fect, that fome Perfons of each Eftate be employ-
ed to join with thofe our Commiffioners, for-
merly nominated by the Eftates of this King-
dom, for treating anent the Articles of Peace
with the Kingdom of England^ do therefore no-
minate, make Choice of, add and conjoin to their
4 « forefaid

of ENGLAND. 109

forefaid former Commiflioners for the Treaty, the Aa, »i Car* I.
Perfons underwritten, viz. John Earl of Craw-
ford, William Earl of Marshall, William Earl of
Lanerk, Sir John Hamilton of Ormi/ian, Juftice
Clerk, Sir William Cochran ; Mr. Robert Mel-
drum, and Mr. Alexander Wedderburn^ Commif-
fioners for the Town of Dundee ; John Kennedy,
Commiflioner for the Town of Air ; and William
Glendon, Commiflioner for the Town oi Kirkcud-
bright ^ or any five of them, there being one of
each Eftate to meet with the Commiflioners for
England at , or any other Place

the Committee of Eftates (hall think fitting ; and
to Hear them, receive any Propofitions that fliall
be given in to them, and to give in Propofitions
to them, and to treat and debate thereupon^
according to the Inftru&ions given them by the
Parliament or Committee of Eftates.

ALEX'. GIBSON, Ckr. Regi/l.

The SCOTS Commijfioners APOLOGY for not coming
to Berwick.

Berwick, Off. 6, 1645.
4 TT 7 E are commanded by the Committee of

* W Eftates to (hew unto your Lordfhips,

* and thefe Noble Gentlemen, that the Condition

* of Affairs in our Kingdom has been fuch, that

* we could not, according to the Intention of the
€ Parliament and the Committee, meet with you
' before this Time, being diverted by our necefiary
' Attendance upon the Armies ; and that we are

* now ready to receive, from you, fuch Propoji-

* tions as you have in Charge to offer in Behalf of

* the Parliament of England unto the Parliament of

* Scotland or their Committee. We are further

* commanded to acquaint your Lordfhips and

* thefe Noble Gentlemen, That7£«r/2foy, the 14 h

* Inftant, is appointed for a Meeting, at St. An-

* Jrews, of a Quorum of both Committees, rui-

4 dent

November.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

dent in Scotland and in the Army, to confider upon
and return Anfwers to thofe Proportions j the
Condition of the Country, and the Employment
of many Members of the Committee in the Army,
making it very inconvenient for us to meet at
any Place further South, or fooner ; and therefore
we do offer unto your Confideration, whether it
may better confift with your Affairs to go to St.
Andrews, where we may more conveniently treat,
or to ftay at "Berwick till we ihall return you an
Answer from the Committee.'
Signed at the Command of the CommiJJioners of the
Parliament ^/"Scotland. •

JA. PRIMROSE.

To the Right Hon. the Marquis of A R GYLE,
- the Earl of LAUDERDALE, &c.

Right Honourable,

were fent from the Parliament of England
to treat with the Parliament of Scotland, or
emy who Jhall derive Authority from them, upon
fuch Matters as concerned the Good of both King-
doms. We arrived at Berwick the i6th of Auguft,
and there /taid, according to the Defer es of a Letter
fent unto us from the Parliament of Scotland, and
have ufed all Means to have a Meeting ; and, from
Time to Time, have had feveral Promifes and
Engagements that it Jhould be fpeedy. After above
thirty Days Expectations, we writ unto yoar Lord~
Jhips and others, by ours of the iStb of September,
that we did intend to take our 'Journey Southwards,
if we had not a fpeedy Meeting with thofe appointed
to treat with us j to which having no Anfwer of
any particular Time, we accordingly went to New-
caftle and the Counties adjacent, and difpatched an
Exprefs to you, before our going hence, that the
Time might be ascertained, and we Jhculd not fail
to return and meet at the Day and Hour that Jhould
he ajjigned; which, by Letters from the Committef
of Ejlates, of the. 2jtb of September, was appoint'

cf E N G L A N D, nr

td to be here on Monday the 6th Injtant, at Two An. 2i Car. L

of the Clock in the Afternoon : Accordingly -we re-

turned hither, feme of us above So Miles ; but yet,

contrary to our Expectation, found no Committee to

treat withall; and, infeead thereof, a Paper was

tendered unto us by your Lordjhips, who, both now and

upon former Meetings, acknowledged yourfelves to be

no Committee.

To the Paper itfelf, which importeth, That you
could not meet with us before this Time ; and that
you were ready to receive from us fuch Propofitions
as we have in Charge to offer in Behalf of the Par-
liament of England to the Parliament of Scotland,
cr this Committee, we are to let your Lordjhips
knoiv, that we cannot hold this to be fuch a Meet-
ing as was promifed, in regard you are not a Com"
mittee. And whereas it further imports an Offer
unto our Confederation, Whether we would go to
St. Andrews, where we might more conveniently
treat, or Jlay at Berwick till you Jhould return us
Anfiver from the Com?nittee ; we think fit to fegnify
thus much to your Lordjhips, that there can be no
Return of any Anfwer from the Committee j be-
caufe, upon the Ground aforefaid, we cannot deliver
in any Papers or Propofitions to your Lordjhips ;
and therefore nothing is left to our Choice but to go
to St. Andrews to the Meeting of the i^th of this
Month.

My Lords, thus the Bufenefs, as we conceive, now
Jlands, and hereby we are necejjitated to a longer un-
expected Delay, without having made any Entrance
at all into the Affairs we have in Command ; yet that
it may appear nothing Jhall be wanting, on our Partsy
to continue and preferve a good Correfpondence her
twixt the Kingdoms, and promote the Good and Ser-
vice of them both, we are refolved to go to St. An-
drews ; and, God willing, Jhall not fail to be at the
faid Meeting, if we may receive an AJJurance from
your Lordjhips that we Jhall have a fpeedy Dif-
patch and Conclufeon of the Treaty with a full

Quorum

110

An. 4i. Car. I.

,6-45-

November.

'The Parliamentary HISTORY

dent in Scotland and in the Army, to confider upon
and return Anfwers to thofe Proportions j the
Condition of the Country, and the Employment
of many Members of the Committee in the Army,
triaking it very inconvenient for us to meet at
any Place further South, or fooner ; and therefore
we do offer unto your Confideration, whether it
may better confift with your Affairs to go to St.
Andrews, where we may more conveniently treat,
or to ftay at "Berwick till we fhall return you art
Answer from the Committee.'
Signed at the Command of the CommiJJtoners of the
Parliament £/ Scotland. •

JA. PRIMROSE.

To the Right Hon. the Marquis of A R GYLE,
V the Earl of LAUDERDALE, &c.

Right Honourable,

were fent from the Parliament 0f England
to treat with the Parliament of Scotland, or
any who Jhall derive Authority from them, upon
fuch Matters as concerned the Good of both King"
doms. We arrived at Berwick the i6th of Auguft,
and there /laid, according to the Defer es of a Letter
fent unto us from the Parliament of Scotland, and
have ufed all Means to have a Meeting; and, from
Time to Time, have had feveral Promifes and
Engagements that it Jhould be fpeedy. After above
thirty Days Expectations, we writ unto yoar Lord-
flips and others, by ours of the iSth of September,
that we did intend to take our Journey Southwards,
if we had not a fpeedy Meeting with thofe appointed
to treat with us ; to which having no Anfwer of
any particular Time, we accordingly went to New-
caftle and the Counties adjacent, and difpatched an
Exprefs to you, before our going hence, that the
Time might be afcertained, and we Jhculd not fail
to return and meet at the Day and Hour that Jhould
be ajjigned-, which, by Letters from the Committes
of Ejlates, of the 2jth of September, was appoint'

(d

of ENGLAND, nr

ed to be here on Monday the 6th Injiant, at Two An. ^ i Car. !•
of the Clock in the Afternoon : Accordingly we re-
turned hither, feme of us above 80 Miles j but yet,
contrary to our Expectation, found no Committee to
treat withall', and, injlead thereof, a Paper was
tendered unto us by your Lordjhips, who, both now and
upon former Meetings, acknowledged yourfelves to be
no Committee.

To the Paper itfelf, which importeth, That you
could not meet with us before this Time ; and that
you were ready to receive from us fuch Propofitions
as we have in Charge to offer in Behalf of the Par-
liament of England to the Parliament of Scotland,
or this Committee, we are to let your Lordjhips
know, that we cannot hold this to be fuch a Meet-
ing as was promifed, in regard you are not a Com-
mittee. And whereas it further imports an Offer
unto our Conjideration, Whether we would go to
St. Andrews, where we might more conveniently
treat, or Jlay at Berwick //// you Jhould return us
Anfwer from the Committee ; we think jit to ftgnify
thus much to your Lordjhips, that there can be no
Return of any Anfwer from the Committee-, be-
caufe, upon the Ground aforefaid, we cannot deliver
in any Papers or Propofitions to your Lordjhips ;
and therefore nothing is left to our Choice but to go
to St. Andrews to the Meeting of the i^th of this
Month.

My Lords, thus the Bujinefs^ as we conceive, now
Jlands, and hereby we are neceffitated to a longer un-
expected Delay, without having made any Entrance
at all into the Affairs zve have in Command ; yet that
it may appear nothing Jhall be wanting, on our Parts,
to continue and preferve a good Correspondence ber
twixt the Kingdoms, and promote the Good and Ser-
vice of them both, we are refolved to go to St. An-
drews ; and, God willing, Jhall not fail to be at the
faid Meeting, if we may receive an Ajjurance from,
your Lordjhips that we Jhall have a fpeedy Dif-
patch and Condufun of the Treaty with a full

Quorum.

An. 2i Car. I.
1645-

Oftober.

*?he Parliamentary HISTORY

Affiftance, which they fo timeoufly received from
the Kingdom of Scotland, and do, in their Name,
return Thanks for the fame. And we are fur-
ther to exprefs their earned Defires, that a good
and mutual Correfpondency betwixt the two
Kingdoms, united in this great Caufe by Solemn
League and Covenant ', may be, by all Endeavours,
continued and inviolably preferved ; and, for that
Purpofe, we are commanded to endeavour the beft
Satisfaction we can, in all Things that may feem
to give any Occafion of Difference, and to defire
the like from your Lordftips. And we are fur-
ther to acquaint your Lordmips with the great
Straits the Kingdom of England is in for Want
of Money ; and that if there hath been any Fail-
ing Payments, which ftiould have been made
from the Parliament of England^ in purfuance of
the Treaty^ it hath not proceeded from any Want
of Affection or real Intention to make good their
Engagements.

Wm- ROWE, Sef- Comm".

St. Andrews^ Off. 14, 1645.
XT7 E the Commiffioners of the Parliament
of England have %in Charge from both
Houfes, to demand of your Lordmips, and the
reft of this Honourable Committee, That, in
purfuanceofthe Large Treaty of both Kingdoms,
the Works about (Jar/iJJe be flighted, and the
Place difmantisd ; and that the Scots Garrifon,
put in there without the Confent of the Parlia-
ment of England^ be forthwith removed.

Wm- ROWE, Seer- Commn.

St. Andrews, 0£t. 14, 1645.

' \\T E the Commiflioners of the Parliament
of England have in Charge to demand
* of tr.i, H .K> ;rable Committee, True the feveral
« Garriionv or f^a^ewurt^ Cu.Vie, TtntMiith Caftle,
« Newcajlle upon Tyne, Jdartlepooie^ Stodton Caitle,

' and

of ENGLAND. 115

* and Thirlewall Caftle, being placed there without An. 21 Car I.
e the Confent of both Houfes of the Parliament of l6*J>-

' England, or their Committee, may fpeedily be November

* removed.

W

Wm- ROWE, Sec^ Comnr*.

St. Andrews, Oft. 14, 1645.
E the Commiffioners of the Parliament
of England have in Command from both.
Houfes, to let your Lordfhips knovr, Tnat the
Protections already given to the re: fens, Go:>ds,
or Ei'tates of any JL) • inqucnts, without the Con-
fent of the Parliament of England, or their Com-
miffioners, are to be limited to their juir Inten-
tions j which is only from retraining the Soldiers
from all Acts of Violence againft the Perfons
fo protected, and not extend to the Prejudice
of any Ordinance of Parliament, or Order of
both or either of the Houfes of Parliament ;
and that no Protections are to be granted, or
Capitulations made, without the Confent of the
Parliament of England, or their Committees :
And if any Protections have or fhali be granted
or made otherwife, that they lhall be held void
and null.

W

W"" ROWE, Sec'- Comm".

St. Andrews, Ott. 14, 1645] '

E the Commiffioners from the Parlia-
ment of England are. to acquaint this
Honourable Committee, That Commiflions are
granted under the Great Seal of England, for the
taking upon Oath, ;md adjufting the Accounts of
Tortjhire, of the City and County of the City of
York, Northumberland, the Borough of Berwick
upon Tweed, Cumberland, Wejlmorland, the
County of Durham, and County of Neivcallc
upon Tyne, between the Scots Army and the faid
feveral Counties, arifing either by Affelfment,
Free Quarter, -Billeting, or any other Way ;
H 2 l and

¥be Parliamentary HIST'ORY

and we are hereupon required to offer to thrs
Honourable Committee, that they may fend Com-
miflioners of their own, if they pleafe, to be pre-
fent at the adjufting of the faid Accounts in the
feveral Counties and Places above-mentioned.

Wm. ROWE, Sec*- Comm".

St. Andrews, Oft< 16, 1645-

WE the Commiffioners of the Parliament of
Scotland are warranted by the Committee
of Eftates, to defire your Lordfhips and thofe
Gentlemen, to make known unto us, Whether
you have any more at this Time to propound unto
them from the Parliament of England, becaufe
the urgent Occafions of this Kingdom do necef-
farily require the Committee's Removal from
this Place to Glafgow To-morrow,

JA. PRIMROSE.
St, Andrews^ Of?. r6, 1645,

E the Commiffioners of the Parliament of
England did, on Tuefday the i4th of this
Inftant, deliver in five Papers to your Lordmips.,
agreeable to the 'Treaties made betwixt the two
Kingdoms, and did this Day, upon Notice from
your Lordfhips, expect an Anfwer in Writing
thereunto : but have received a Paper of the
fixteenth, in which you defire to know, Whether
ive have any more at this Time to propound from the
Parliament of England ; which we conceive a
Courfe unufual in Treaties, notwithftanding we
have given your Lordihips another Paper, unto
which and the former we defire your Lordfhips
fpeedy Anfwer.

W

. ROWE,

St.

^ENGLAND. 117

~ , , An. ii Car. I,

St. /fnareut, Qtt. ID, iO45i 1645.

* \\7 E the Comraiffioners of the Parliament ^~ v '

of England have further in Command
' of both Houfes, to defire [your Lordfhips fpecial
' Care, That, for the better Prevention of all Oc-
' cafions of Complaints and Mifunderftandings that

* may arife betwixt the two Nations, all the Ar-

* ticles of the feveral Treaties between the two
' Kingdoms may be duly kept and inviolably ob-

* ferved ; and, in Purfuance thereof, that the other
' Garrifons in Cumberland, not mentioned in our
' former Papers, may be fpeedily removed ; and

* that your Lordfhips will take an effectual Courfe,
' that all Affeffments and levying of Monies,
' either by Officers or Soldiers, or any other Per-
c fons by their Authority and Command, may be
' hereafter foreborne j and that all Opprcffions,
' Wrongs, and Injuries heretofore offered, contrary

* to the Articles of the Treaty, may be duly ex-
' amined, and fuch Remedy applied as to Juftice
' fhall appertain ; and that for the future your
' Lordfhips will make fuch Declaration, and take
' fuch Order, that, according to the Treaty, no fiich

* Injuries may be committed or done,

Wm. ROWE, Sec'- Comm">
St. Andrews, Oft. 16, 1645.'

^ t^ie Commiffioners °f ^e Parliament
of Scotland, authorized to treat with the
« Commiflioners of the Parliament of England,
4 upon fuch Matters as may tend to the Good and
' Peace of both Kingdoms, are warranted, by the

* Committee of Eftates, to return unto your Lord-
' fhips arrd thefe Gentlemen this following Anfwcr
' to your/r// Paper of the I4th Inftant, delivered
' unto us :

' That the Committee of Eftates of the King-
' dom of Scotland are exceeding fenfible of the gooJ
' Acceptance the Honourable Houfes of the Parlia-

* ment of England have expreflc J, by your Lord-

H 3 ihi,»

An. zi. Car. I.

'645- ^

• November.

7%e Parliamentary HISTORY

fhips, of the timely Afliftance they received from
this Kingdom ; and that all Means will be ufed,
on their Parts, that a good and mutual Corre-
fpondency between the two Kingdoms, united in
this great Caufe by Solemn League and Covenant^
may be continued and inviolably preferred $ and
that they (hall moft readily contribute their beft
Endeavours for the Removal of any feeming
Difference that may occafion any Miftakes be-:
tween the Kingdoms.

' We are further commanded to fhew your
Lordfljips, That they are exceeding fenfible of
the Straits the Kingdom of England is in for
Want of Money, and believe their Failings of
Payments and other Particulars, due by the
Treaty of this Kingdom, hath not proceeded from
any Want of Affection or real Intention to make
good their Engagements ; albeit the Scots Army
now in England hath been, and now is, reduced
to exceeding Extremities, and difabled to do
fuch Service as might otherwife have been ex-
* peded.

JA. PRIMROSE.

$t. AndreivS) Oft. 14. 1645.

E tne Commiffioners of the Parliament
of Scotland are warranted, by the Com-
mittee of Eilates, to return this following Anfwer
. to your Lordfhips fecond Paper of the i^th In-
ftant delivered unto us :

* That ihey are moft' defirous all the Articles
of the Large Treaty br faithfully obferved ; and
do offer unto your JLordmipsConfic'eraron, if the
fame Reafon which moved the Parliament of
England to allow a Forbearance in the Execution
of that Article concerning Benvick, and to give
it in Truft to their Brethren or Scotland^ may not
be of as great Force for cc.:\ ''<':ii;g of Carlijle
in the fame Condition it is now in ; and the ra-
ther, confidering thdt it is known to all v/ho are
upon the Treaty^ concerning our March into

' England^

0f ENGLAND. 119

England, that the only Reafon why it was not An< 2T Car- 1«
put into the fame Condition with Berwick was ^ l6^' J
becaufe it was not then in the Power of the Par- November.
liament of England; who, they are confident,
upon Confideration of the neceflary Ufe of it for
the Safety of the Kingdom of Scotland, would
have been as willing to have condefcended unto
it as that of Berwick : And now that Place
being brought under their Obedience, it feems
much more reafonable that the Garrifon be con-
tinued in it, without flighting the Works, or dif-
mantling the Place, till it fhall pleafe God that
the Affairs of both Kingdoms be in a better Po-
fture ; in regard that the Kingdom of Scotland
hath been invaded from that Place, and by the
ill-affected Perfons about it on both Sides of the
Border, who do ftill expecl: the Landing of Irijh
Forces near unto it and the Coming of the Forces
that are with his Majefty to join with them
for infefting of this Kingdom, according to the
Intelligence both your Lordmips and we have
received : And that the Committee of Eftates are
the more encouraged to believe that thefe Reafons
will weigh much with the Honourable Houfes of
Parliament and your Lordmips, in that the King-
dom of Scotland have given fo many real Proofs
of their Affeclion and Faithfulnefs to their Bre-
thren of England, and are molt willing, as they
have ever profefTed, that thefe Difficulties being
taken away, and the Troubles ended, the Gar-
rifons (hall be removed, the Works flighted, and
the Place difmantled according to your Lordftiips
Defire.

JA. PRIMROSE.

St. Andrews, Oft. 1 6, 1645.

' \\7 E the Commiflioncrs of the Parliament
* of Scotland are warranted by the Com-

' mittee of Eftates, to return unto your Lordmips
' and thofe Gentlemen this Anfwer to your third
4 Paper of the i4th Inftant :

H 4 * That

120

An. at Car.J.
16*5-

*¥be Parliamentary HISTORY

4 That when, upon the Invitation of the Par-
liament of England, a Treaty was made, and an
Army raifed in this Kingdom for the Affiftance
of their Brethren, in Purfuance of the Ends ex-
prefTed in the Solemn Laague and Covenant and
the Treaty^ no Town or Caftle in the North of
England was in the Power of the Parliament,
except Berwick ; and fo then none could be
commanded either for Retreat or Magazine,
to the Scots Army ; but if thefe mentioned had
been then in their Power, they would undoubt-
edly have been afked and granted upon the fame
Ground and Reafons that Berwick was in Eng-
land, and Carrickfergus and Coleraine to the Army
of Ireland ; and the Neceflity of thefe Places
did appear upon the Advance of the Scots Army j
who, for thefe Ends, were forced to fortify and
garrifon Blythe-Nooke and Sunder land; which '
was not oppofed then by either the Parliament
of England or the Committee : Afterwards,
by the Bleflings of God upon the Siots Army
brought into England by the Earl of Leven, the
Army under the Earl of Newcaftle being driven
out of the Northern Counties into the City of
York j the Town of Hartlepoole and the Came
of Sfockton were taken by the Earl of Callendar^
and garrifoned for thefe fame Ends : Then after
the Overthrow given, by the joint Endeavours of
the Armies of both Kingdoms, to Prince Rupert
and the Earl of Newcajll'e at Lcng-Marjhn, the
Scots Army was, by the Commiflioners of the
Parliament of England (who, by their h'Jlruc-
tions of the firft of November, 1643, commu-
nicated to the Convention of Eftates at the Time
of the Treaty, have Power to adviie, debate
and conclude with the joint Advice of their Bre-
thren of Scotland, to put in Execution all Mat-
ters and Things concerning the Well-ordering,
Direction, Difpofal, and Accommodation of the
Forces brought for Affifrance of the Kingdom of
England-) preflcd to mnrch back and befiegc

1 NtWCltftle ;

of E N G LAND. 121

Newcaftle ; which, after a long Debate, by an An. « Car. r.
Order of the Committee of both Kingdoms re- t * *5' t

Tiding with them, they did ; and, having endu- November,
red much Hardfhip and Lofs of fo many Men,

- it pleafed God to make them Inftruments for re-
ducing it by Affault, to the Obedience of the
Parliament of England ; and, within a few Days,
the Caftle of Tinmouth was alfo rendered : Not
long after they were taken, a Commiffion was
drawn up by the Committee of Eftates refident
with the Scots Army, appointing Sir James Lumf-
den Governor ; which, with fome Marginal
Notes upon it, made by the Commiflioners of
the Parliament of England, was fent up to London^
and the Confideration of that Bufmefs re- '

ferred to the Committee of both Houfes and to
the Committee of both Kingdoms ; where, after
many Debates with the Commiflioners of this
Kingdom at London, a Commiffion was refolved
on to him as Governor for a Twelvemonth ;
which afterwards, upon fome Difference concern-
ing the Form of it, was laid afide, as we are in-
formed, but nothing then propofed for removing
the Garrifon of Newcajile ; for it was, and is, fo
well known, that it is the fitteft Place for fending
Recruits to the Scots Army, for a Magazine, and
for a Retreat in cafe of Neceflity ; it being fo
confiderable aPafs into Scotland, that, without it,
that Army cannot be in Safety ; and therefore
the Committee of Eftates is confident, when the
Grounds and Proceedings of the Scots Army in
garrifoning all thefe Places fhall be confidered,
and thcjr Situation in regard of the Provifton
and Accommodation of that Army, and the
Defence of the Kingdom of Scotland againft the
Attempts of the ill-affected Perfons, who are
too many in thefc Places on both Sides of the
Border, the Removal of thefe Garrifons, until
both Kingdoms be in a better Pofture, or our
Troubles ended by a happy Peace, will neither
we preffed by the Parliament of England, nor by *

« this

i a* ' The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2 -far. I. « this Honourable Committee; which might be

^_J S'^ * interpreted, though we are confident it is not

NovemberT ' intended, as a Diffidence of their Brethren of

4 Scotland-, who, by their Endeavours and Suffer-

* ings, only for their Engagement with the King-

* dom of England^ have given fo large and unde-
' niatibe Teftinoonies of their Brotherly Love and

* Faith ful nefs ; and who are willing to hazard all
4 that is dear unto them in this Caufe with the

* fame Affection and Zeal.

JA. PRIMROSE.

St. Andrews^ Off: 16, 1645.
TT7 E the Commiffioners of the Parliament
^Vu"of Scotland are warranted, by the Com-
mittee of Eftat.es, to return this Anfwer to your
fourth Paper of the I4th Inrtant, delivered
unto us :

* That they agree that all Protections, given by
the Officers of the Scots Army, are to be under-
ftood only for retraining of the , Soldiers from
Acts of Violence a^ainil the Perfon fo protected ;
and that no Protections are to be granted, or Ca-
pitulations made, to the Prejudice of any Ordi-
nance of Parliament ; and if any Protection hath
been gr.inted heretofore without this Caution,
they defire your Lordfhips to condefcend upon
the Particulars, that they, with you, may make
an exact Search and Trial if they have not, or may
not bear a juit Exception.

JA. PRIMROSE.

St. Andrews, Oft. 16, 1645.
4 \\7 E the Commiffioners of the Parliament

* of Scotland are warranted, by the Com-

* mittee ot Eftates, to return this Anfwer to the
' fifth Paper of the "i 4th Inftant, delivered

* unto us :

' That they were fo defirous the Accounts be
c fitted and adjuiied, that, to that Effect, the Com-

« mittee

of E N G L A N D. 123

mittee and Genera) Officers with the Scots Army An. 21 Car. I.

in England, fent the Earl of Lothian and Sir Adam l64 ' f

Hepburn of Humble, to the Committee at York, to November,
know whether the Accounts were taken in from.
the feveral Quarters ; who returned them Anfwer
They had Commiflions and Orders for it from
the Parliament of England, but that, by reafon
of the Sicknefs in many Places, and other Hinder-
ances, nothing was done.

' And we are farther warranted to fhew you,
That, upon this Proposition, this Committee of
Eftates will appoint fome to join with any in
Commiffion from the Parliament of England for
that Purpofe, that thcfe Accounts may be io or-
dered and allowed, as formerly was done when
our Army was in England, in the Year 1640 :
And we are to de.ire your Lordfhips to conde-
fcend upon the Time and Place to be appointed
for the Meeting of thefe Commiffioners concern-
ing that Bufmefs, that the Committee of Eftates
may appoint their Commiffioners to attend ac-
cordingly.

JA. PRIMROSE.

W

St. Andrevjs, Off. 14, 1645.

E the Commiffioners of the Parliament
of Scotland are warranted to return this
' Anfwer to your Paper of the iDth Imlant :

* That the Committee of Eftates are mod de-
' firous, That all the Articles of the feveral Trea-
' ties betwixt the Kingdoms be inviolably and
' punctually obferved.

4 That when they know whtit thofe other Gar-
* rifons in Cumberland are, they Ihail return fuch
6 an Anfwer us, in Reafon, can be expeci,-.].

' Taey do acknowledge no AffcHinents ought
' to be laid, or Mom'e-j levied, either by Officers
' or Soldiers, or any Perfons by their Authority;
' and, that Neceffity may not compel ihc Army for
' their A'laiatenancc, for V/antofduc and timec.-
' Payment, to any fuch Courfe, they do defire

* that

The Parliamentary HISTORY

that, according to the Treaty, their Monies may
be duly paid to them ; and if any Oppreffions,
Wrongs, or Injuries have been heretofore offered,
they are moft willing, according to the Treaty,
they be duly examined, and fuch Remedies ap-
plied as to Juftice {hall appertain.'

w

JA. PRIMROSE.

St. Andrews, O£l. 17, 1645.
E the Commiflioners of the Parliament
of England have confidered of your
Lordflijps Anfwers to our feveral Papers ; and as
to that given in Anfwer to our firft, we make no
Doubt but that your Lordfliips Expreffions,
concerning your Endeavours to procure a good
and mutual Correfpondency betwixt the King-
doms, will be very acceptable unto the Houies
of Parliament of England, as that which they
do much defire ; and we do aflure your Lord-
fhips, that wherein it {hall appear to the Houfes
that there hath been any Failure of Payments, or
of other Particulars due by the "Treaty, they will
be careful to make good the fame, according to
their utmoft Power.

* And as to your Lordfliips Anfiuer to our fecond
and third Papers, concerning Carlijle, Newcafile,
and the other Garrifons, we are of Opinion,
That the Reafons therein exprefled, for con-
tinuing your Garrifons in thofe Places, are no
ways anfwerable to the Treaties, nor will be fa-
tisfa&ory to the Parliament of England ; and do
therefore defire that your Lordfliips will ferioufly
confider to return fuch an Anfwer as may give
Satisfaction to the juft Demands of the Parlia-
ment ; or that we may know whether thofe
Papers we have received do contain, as to thofe
Garrifons, that Anfwer which you will infift
upon, and would have us reprefent unto the Par-
liament.

* As for your Lordfliips Anfwer urto our fourth
Paper, we do obferve that you do a?re', That

« Prc-

of ENGLAND. 125

Protections are to be underftood only for reftrain- An. n. Car. I,
ing Acts of Violence againft the Perfons protect- l645> t
ed, and that no Protections are to be granted, Nove^ber.
nor Capitulations made, to the Prejudice of any'
Ordinance of Parliament ; whereas our Demands
are, That no Protections be granted, which may
extend to the Prejudice, not only of any Ordi-
nance of Parliament, but of any Order of either
Houfe j and that no Protections or Capitulations
be made without the Confent of the Parliament
of England^ or their Committees : In thefe Dif-
ferences we defire further Satisfaction ; as alfo to
know what is meant by the Words in the Clofe
of your Paper, viz. If they have not, or may not,
bear a jt^ft Exception.

' As to your Lordfliips Anfwer unto our fifth
Paper ; we do agree that fpeedy and convenient
Times be condefcended upon for your Commif-
fioners to be prefent at the adjufting of the Ac-
counts in the feveral Counties, and defire to re-
ceive from your Lordfliips the Names of fuch as
you mall think fit to employ in that Service, and
accordingly we fliall give Notice thereof unto the
Englijh Commiflioners.'

Wm- ROWE, Sec" Commr*.

St. Andrews ^ Oft* 17, 1645.

E the Commiflioners of the Parliament
of Scotland have confidered of your

* Paper of the iyth Inftant, and are warranted to

* defire to know from your Lordfliips, Whether
' you have Power from the Parliament of England
i to fettle thofe Garrifons and Governors, which,
c upon Debate, fliall be found, by good Reafon,

* to be for the Safety and Accommodation of the
4 Scots Army fo long as they are employed in
: England for this Caufe and the Good of both
' Kingdoms. *

JA. PRIMROSE.

SI.

:w

126 tfik Parliamentary HISTORY

A*, a i Car. I. ^ Andrew s^ Oft. 17, 1645.

' v — ' « T T 7 E the Commifiioners of the Parliament of

November. < VV England^ in return of your Lordfhip's laft

* Paper or the lyth Inftant, do make this Anfwer^

* That we are commanded by the Parliament of
' England to demand the withdrawing of the Scotf

* Garrifons, according to the Papers delivered in

* for that Purpofe, wherein the Parliament demand-
' eth nothing but conform to Right and Juftice ;
' and when your Lordfhip ftiall give us a fatisfac-
' tory Anfaer. unto thofe Demands, we are moft
' confident, and {hall undertake, that thefe Towns

* and Places {Jiall have fuch Gari ifons and Gover-
« nors, and mall be fo difpofed, as mall be for the
' Safety and Accommodation of the Scots Army, fo
' long as they are employed in England for this
« Caufe, and the Good of both .Kingdoms.'

W»- ROWE, Sec'- Commr*. .

St. Andrews^ Ott. 1 7, 1 645.

E ^e Commiffioners of the Parliament of
Scotland are warranted, by the Committee
' of Eftates, to return this Anfwer to your fir ft
' Paper of the 1 7 th In :

' That as they fhall be ready, upon all Occa-
' fions, to make good thofe Expieffions, which

* your Lordmips are confident will be fo accepc-
« ab'c to ihe Parliament of England ; fo they do

* not doubt but the Pui;iaintnt, according to your
' Aluira.',::., will make good all that is due by them
6 to thU Kingdom .

4 As to tnat Article concerning Protedli ins ; the
' Committee doth a^ree, That- no Protections be
' hereafter granted, that may extend to thcPreju-

* dice of any Order of either Houfe of Parliament ;
' and that no Capitulations be masle but according
4 to the Treaty. The Meaning of thefc Words in

* t:io Glofe of our Paper is, That the Particulars

* of the Protections already given being condefcend-

* ed on, the Committee may, witn you, make an

« exad

cf E N G L A N D. 127

exa& Trial, if they may not bear a juft and rea- An.u.Car.i,
fonable Exception from this Rule now agreed t l3^' ,
upon. November*

' As to the laft we defire to know, iP thefe
Words, For your CommiJJioners to be prefent at the
adjnjling of the Accounts, your Lordfhips do not
mean, That the fame Power (hall be granted to
our Commiffioners, and the fame Courfe taken in
the fitting of thefe Accounts, as in the Year 1640,
and then you (hall receive the Names of thofe the
Committee does employ.

* We are further warranted to (hew your Lord-
ftiips the earneft Defire the Committee hath to
fatify your Lordfhips in all your Demands, fo far
as can either agree with Reafon, or the Safety of
the Scots Army now in England, employed for the
Ends exprefled [in the Covenant and Treaty ; and
for that EfFecT: we prefented the Paper of the lyth
Inftant, that we might know if your Lordfhips
are fully inftru&ed for fettling fuch Gatrifons to
the Scots Army, as, in Reafon, cannot be denied
to be neceflary for their Subfiftance and Safety in
England, for the Good of both Kingdoms ; but
finding your Lordftiips Anfwcr no ways iatisfac-
tory, we offer it to your Lordfhips Confideration,
If it be fit to remit that Demand, with our An-
fwer, to the Parliament of England and our Com-
miffioners at London ; and we are confident the
Honourable Houfcs, both for the Weight of our
Reafons, and their Brotherly Senfe of our ready
and timeous Afliilance, will not fuffer the Scots
Army to want any Accommodation for their
Safety and Security, which can juftly be demand-
ed ; left the Enemies of both Kingdoms take this
Opportunity to weaken the Confidence betwixt
the Kingdoms, by their alledging this Denr-.iid,
at fuch a Time, for an Argument of Jealoufy ;
or if your Lordfliips will propofe any other Way,
for a more fpeedy and more cfiecbl Conclufion
therein, we (hall moft heartily concur.' "

JA. PRIMROSE.
St.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

St. Andrews, Off. 18, 1645.

t T7 E the Commiflioners of the Parliament
November. < VV of £ngland^ in Anfwer to your Paper

An'

* of the iyth Inftant, think fit to let your Lord-

* (hips know, that to that Part concerning the Ob-
' fervation of the Treaties, we refer ourfelves to our

* former Papers, and expect the like to be perform-
4 ed on the Behalf the Kingdom of Scotland^ the

* Obligation being mutual.

' As to that Article concerning Protections ; we

* reft fatisfied with your Anfwer as to the future,

* and we are confident there cannot be found, upon

* Examination, any juft and reafonable Exceptions
' from the Rule now agreed upon,

' For the Matter of Accounts ; the Commif-
' fions are already granted under the Great Seal of

* England ; but we cannot fay whether they be
' agreeable or no to thofe Commiflions of 1640,

* becaufe we have not feen them. Concerning

* the Garrifons ; we are confident that what

* we have demanded on Behalf of the Par-

* liament, in our former Papers^ are agreeable to
' the 7rart/«,and no ways prejudicial to the Safety
' of the Scots Army now in England j wherein we

* cannot imagine in what Terms we could have
' offered better Satisfaction to your Lordmips than
' by that Engagement which we made in our laft
' Paper of the lyth Inftant j neither can we con-
' ceive that the making of thofe Demands, by the

* Parliament at this Time, can be made Ufe of to

* weaken the Confidence betwixt the two Nations,

* by making it an Argument of Jealoufy ; but, on

* the other Part, we are fully perfuaded that the

* fpeedy condefcend ing upon their Duties would be

* the moft effectual Way to continue a perfect and

* true Underftanding betwixt the two Kingdoms ;

* but if we can't herein prevail with your Lordfhips,

* there will remain nothing more for us but to re-

* prefent your Papers unto both Houfes, which we

* ihall do with all Faithfulnefs.'

-: w» ROWE, Sec'- Comm"-
a Aftac

of ENGLAND. 129

After this Report, the Speaker was ordered to' An. 21 Car. I;
give the Lord Wharton Thanks from the Houfe,
for his Pains in this Bufmefs ; which was done November. '
accordingly.

Nov. 12. A Letter from the Scots Commifiioners,
directed to the Speaker of the Houfe of Lords, was
read in that Houfe ; which, with another from
both Houfes to the Parliament of Scotland,
as a Sequel to Lord Wliartorfs Account, is all
that is material for the Space of fome Days.
And firfr,

A Letter from the Scots Commiffioners.

My Lord,

JJfE are dtfired, by his Excellency the Earl ofA Letter from
Leven, to acquaint both Houfes that the Scots the Scots Com-
Army is fpcedily to march towards Newark; ^^
further to prefent their extreme Wants and preffrng
NeceJJities, by reafon they have neither Money for
their Entertainment , nor Cloaths to defend them
from the Injury of the Weather, and fo are exceed-
ingly difabled from performing that Service which
may be expecled : It is therefore now our Requejl to
the Honourable Houfes, That an Ordinance may be
pajjedfor the Repayment of thofe who will lend any
Money for the advancing a Month's Pay to the Scots
Army ; that they would give Order for fpeedy pro-
viding them with Cloaths, and, for their prefent
Subjj/iancc, appoint the Country to afford them free
Quarter.

We have divers Times reprefented to the Houfes,
that the Committee at Goldfmiths-Hall are charged,
by Order of the Houfe of Commons, to pay the Scots
Army, out of the Compofitions ivith Delinquents,
31,000!. whereof only 14,000!. is as yet paid:
And we do again earnejlly entreat, that Monies may
not be drawn from the Committee at Goldfmiths-
Hall for other Ufes, whereby they are dijableet to
advance any conjiderable Supply for that Army, or
anv Manner to fatisfy the Expectation of the

VOL. XIV. I Houfes^

November.

tte Parliamentary HISTORY

Houfes, in providing for their Maintenance. This
being a mean Obftruftion, and exceedingly prejudicial
to that Army, we doubt not but the Houfes will remove
;-/} and fettle fuch aCourfe for their future Entertain-
ment t as that Army may be enabled for the Public Ser-
yice, the Advancement whereof h their ear neft Def.re,
and alfo of,

Your Lordftiip's
Very affe&ionate Friends and Servants,

' L O U D O N.

BALMERINO.

Worcefter-Houfc,

NOV. J2, i64s.

P. S. My Lord, we earneftly defire you to put the-
Houfe in Mind to return an Anfwer to our former
Papers.

This Letter was ordered to be communicated to
the Houfe of Commons.

Nov. 14. A Draught of a Letter •, to be fent
from both Houfes of Parliament, to the Parliament
of Scotland, was read :

My Lords,

CT*HE CommiJJloners lately fent into Scotland'
-f have made their Report unto both Houfes,
wkerein, among other Things, they have received the
th at of Scotland, Anfwers delivered by the CommiJJioners of that King-
cn the fame Sub- dom, appointed to meet with them, concerning the
Garrifons placed by the Scots Army in the Towns
and Gajlies of Carlifle, Newcaftle, Tinmouth,
Hartlepoole, Stockton, Warkworth, and Thirle-
wall, or elfew here within the Kingdom of England,
without the Confent of both Houfes of Parliament,
or their Committees ;• (the Copies whereof, and of
our Demands, we herewith fend you) with which
Anfwers the Lords and Commons ajfembled in the.
Parliament of England are not feiisjied ; the Garri-
fons, according to their undoubted Jtight, not being
removed: We are therefore commanded ly them to

demand t

Another from

of ENGLAND. 131

demand, and accordingly, in their Names , do demand, An. 21 Gar. I.

of the Parliament of Scotland, the Removal of the l€45»

Scots Forces out ofthofe Cities, Toivns, Cajlles,. and ^ v.

Places ; and to the End that the Kingdom of Scot-

land may not be rejlrained in Time, they defire. thai

this may be done before the firjl of March next : And

zue are alfo further* commanded, in their Names, to

ajfare you, That thereupon all Accommodation Jhall bs

made for the Security of the Scots Army, according

to the Offers and Engagements of their Commijfioners

in that Behalf; it being the earncji Defire and Inten-

tion of both Houfes to life all Ways and Means for the

Continuant of a> right Under/landing and a good Cor-

refpondence between the two Kingdoms, and, ifpoflible,

a nearer Union and Conjunction. My Lords, we wtjb

all Happinefs to your Proceedings, and rejly

YburLordifliips

Very affectionate Friends
And humble Servants,

GREY of
Speaker of the Houfe of Peers
pro Tempore.

WILLIAM LENTHALL*

Speaker of the Commons Houfe

in Parliament.

Nov. 15. Another Serfs Paper was read, and
ordered to be fent to the Houfe of Commons j
which was as follows :

Nov. 14, 1645.

THE Lord Sinclair, Lord Levingjlone, and A Paper from
the Lord Montgomery being called to ap- the Scots Com-
pear before the Parliament of Scotland, to anfwer ^^m/fufl'
to fome Informations againft them concerning p*aed Peers of
their holding Correfpondency with the Enemy that Kingdom.
during the Time of their being here in England^
we do earneftly defire that, if there be any thing,
I 2 * amongft

1 32 *fbe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. a i Car. I. '« amongft the Letters and Papers of the Enemy,

l6*5' _ / « lately intercepted, and brought to the Houfes of

November. ' Parliament, or any other Information which may

*- give a further Light into this Bufmefs, that it

* may be communicated unto us, to be fent to th«
'* Parliament of Scotland.

< The prefling Wants and Neceffities of the
' Scots Army do inforce us, again, to importune

* the Honourable Houfes, to give Order for Money

* and Cloaths to be fent to them to cover their

* Nakednefs, and defend them from the Coldnefs

* of the Seafon, now daily increafmg ; and withal

* we intreat for a fpeedy Anfvuer to our former
' Papers, that we may be able to give an Account
' of our Proceedings to the Parliament of Scotland.

By Command of the CommiJJioners of the Par-
liament of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

We (hall conclude the Affairs of this Month,
with the Copies of feveral other Letters, which
are expreflive enough how the Proceedings of Par-
liament went on at this Time.

Nov. 19. The Lords ordered a Letter from Sir
Thomas Fairfax, of the J4th Inftant, to be reported
to both Houfes ; which was read as follows :

For the Right Honourable the COMMITTEE of
both Kingdoms at Derby-Houfe.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

A Letter frcm jHave in a Letter to Mr. Speaker of the Houfe
foTcerni/g'thr rf^Commom^ from myfelf, and another Paper
Distribution of therein inclofed, reprefented what Diftribution and
Difpofure of the Army and Forces, now in thefe
Parts, we conceived to be mojt anjwerahle to the Af-
fairs of the Weft and of the Midland 'Parts. I
have here fent your Lordjhips the Copies of both,
and defire the Houfes and your Lordjhips timely Re-
fotution thereupon: In the mean Time, as tlxreby

your

hit Forces.

ef E N G L A N D. 133

your Lordjhips may perceive, I cannot find what Part An. 21 Car. I.
of the Forces can at prefent be well fpared hence to the t Jt6^' «
Midland Parts, without fome Prejudice te the Affairs November.
here ; and I hope the Midland Parts are not infuch
prefent Danger or NcceJJity, but what may be otherwife,
for the Time, provided again/I ; but if your Lordjhips
do find there is a prefent NeceJJity of fome Forces from
hence, be pleafed to fignify what Proportion of Horfe or
Foot, or both, you find necej/ary to be fent, and whither;
and your Commands therein Jhall be mojl readily
obeyed by,

Your Lordftiips humble Servant,
T. FAIRFAX.

Nov. 21. A Letter from Sir William Breretony
was read as follows :

To the Right Hon. the LORDS and others of the
COMMITTEE of both Kingdoms,

My Lords and Gentlemen,

CT'HE Lord hath been pleafed this Day to re/fore Anotherfrom
•*• unto us the Jlrong Caftle of Beefton, which J'J^Jf*™ h;s
was lojt about this Time two Tears, and befieged £y retaking ' Beefton
us about this Time Twelvemonth ; fence which Time Caftle.
they have had no more Liberty than what was ob-
tained fir/f, by Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice's
Army, in March lajl, which raifed us from that Siege ;
which being, after their Return, made good, we are
again dijlurbed the fecond Time by the King's Army^
who came within ten Miles of Nantwich, as he
marched towards Leicefter.

We found in the Cajlle about 80 Stand of Arms,
fome little Ammunition, but lefs Provifton. The Go-
vernor, Capt. Valet, with about 50 of his Soldiers,
was permitted to march away on Foot, with their
Arms, to Flint, and fo to Denbigh or Beaumaris ;
there remaining about 40, who laid down their ^ms
and fubmi tied themfelves, defiring Liberty to live at
home. The Prize therein found was of very f mall
I 3 Value*

134 The Parliamentary Ff i s T o R v

An. a i Car. I. Value, but, fuch as as it was, it is with Equality to be
t--1 45' t dijlributed among the Soldiers, who have performed a
November. verytedious Siege. A great Part of that which they had
exafted from the Country, was bejhwed upon the Re-
paration and Furnijhing of the Cajlle. It is reputed
to be one of the Jlr&ngeji Places in thefe Parts of the
Kingdom. We found their Horfes in a weak and lan-
guijhing Condition, the Governor's own Horfc being
fcarce able to go out of the Stable. We were very exact
in performing and making good the Conditions agreed
upon j which, we hope, may produce a good Ejfefl upon
Chefter, which is now Jo Jiraitned on the Welfli Side,
no Manner of Provifion can be brought unto them,

My Lords and Gentlemen^

Your moft humble Servant,
Nov. 17. 1 6451

WILLIAM BRERETONV

Nov. 22. The Speaker of the Houfe of Lords
acquainted them with a fecond Letter he had re-
ceived from Prince Rupert ^ which was .read as
follows :

For the Right Hon. the LORDS and COMMONS
aflembled in Parliament at Weflminjler.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

Prince Rupert's jTfHereas I made my former AJdrefs unto you
STparlhSc^ by Lieutenant-Colonel Ofborne, who had In-

fa a Pafs. JlrucJions to deliver what were my further Defires j
and conceiving that, perhaps the Manner of the
Reprefentation might not be fo acceptable, I have
now made this immediate Application to you ; and
have fent thefe my Dejires, from which I conceive
myfelf in Honour obliged not to recede, being De-
mands fuitable to a Perfon of my Duality, and
which would not be denied to the meanejl General
in other Nations: And for the Particular of our
coming to London, (mine own and their Conveni-
ences necejjarily inducing us thereunto) I Jhall en-,
gage my Honiur for myfelf and fuch as Jhall ac-

company

of ENGLAND. 135

Company me, that we Jhall do nothing prejudicial to An. 21 Car. I,
•the Parliament : So, in Expectation of your Anfwer^ 1645.

Ire ft, ' * '

Your Friend and Servant,

Worcefter Nov. 17,

1645- RUPERT,

The Defires of his Highnefs Prince Rupert, Prince
Maurice, Lord Hawley, Lord Gerrard, Sir
R ichard Willis, and\ fuch other Gentlemen and
Commanders as are now with them.

I. « *"p O have an ample and free Pafs for them-
' A felves and their Retinues, with their

* Horfes and all other neceflary Accommodations,

* to go beyond the Seas, or elfe to ftay in fuch

* Parts of the Kingdom as they fhall think fit, they

* being no ways adtive againft the Parliament, by
' bearing of Arms or otherwife.

II. * That there be a convenient Caution given,

* and Courfe taken, that neither they, nor any of

* their Retinues, be queftioned by the Parliament

* for any Acl: or Thing done by them from before
' the Beginning of this War ; and that they may
' be reftored to the fame Condition they were in
' before it began, and may have all Sequeftrations
< taken off; and that they may live quietly at their
' Houfes without Molelration, if any of them fhall

* make that Election.

III. ' That no Oath be tendered or impofed

* upon any of them, or further Engagement ; and

* that Liberty may be granted to fuch as fhall de-
' fire it, to pafs to London, to fettle their Bufincfs
( for their Conveniences abroad.

IV. ' That a Lift be taken, by an Officer ap-

* pointed by the Parliament, of all fuch Perions

* Names as fliall be intended to be included in thefe
' Demands, and that it may be done at Banbury.1

6 To thefe Demands they do defirc there may

* be an Anfwer returned j and if it be poffiblc, or

* convenient, that it may be by the 2yth of this

* Inftant November, 1645.'

RUPERT.
1 4 The

'The Parliamentary HISTORY

The Senfe of the Lords upon thefe was, That

they think it not fit to recede from what was for-

November. rnerly agreed upon by both Houfes of Parliament,
and fent by their Meffenger, Mr. Edward Pickering :
And that, if this be not excepted of, this Houfe
doth think fit to recall the faid Mr. Pickering^ with-
in fourteen Days.

Nov. 24 . A Paper from the Scots Commiffioners
was reported to both Houfes.

My Lord, Nov. 22, 1645.

' *"P H E Lord -Chancellor of Scotland being, upon

{ *• Tuefday next, to begin his Journey towards

T^Scots Com- < Scotland, we do earneftly entreat that the Ho-

fbran^nfwerto ' nourable Houfes would be pleafed to return an

their feveral Re- c Anfwer to our former Defires concerning the

nionftrances. < fettling of Religion, the fending the Propojfitions

' of Peace to his Majefty, and the Entertainment

* of the Scots Army j and particularly that they
' would be pleafed to give Order for Cloaths and
' other NecefTaries for their Subfiftance, and to

* pafs an Ordinance of Parliament for the Security
' of fuch Perfons as (hall advance the Month's Pay,

* formerly promifed by the Houfes, to that Army

* now upon their March towards Newark ; that

* the Lord-Chancellor may be enabled, in his Way,

* to give fome Account to the Army of our En-
' deavours here for the fupplying their Neceffities,

* and of our whole Proceedings to the Parliament

* of Scotland -t and if the Honourable Houfes have
' any thing further to communicate to the

* Parliament of Scotland, that they would be pleafed

* to make the fame known, it being our earneft
' Defire to ufe all good Means for promoting this

* great Work wherein both Kingdoms are engaged,

* and for putting a fpeedy and happy Iflue to the

* Troubles and Diffractions of thefe Kingdoms.'

By Command cf the CwiwiJJionen for tfa Parlia-
ment cf Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

Nov.

of ENGLAND. i37

Nov. 28. This Day was read, in the Houfe of An. 21 Car. I-
Lords, a Letter, from Walter Strickland, Efq; the ^l64-5«
Parliament's Agent at the Hague, which gives fome No"veniber.'
Account of what was then doing on the other Side
of the Water.

For the Right Honourable the COMMITTEE of
both Kingdoms at Derby-Houfe.

Right Honourable,

CJTHE Letters of both Houfe s and their Commit- A Letter from

tees I delivered to the States-General, and to Mr. Strickland,
the States of Holland. They will fend Copies to the ^^"
Admiralty, and recommend the Expedition of that Af- Hague.3
fair. I hope it will go well with them in Hull and
York. De Witt is at the Hague.

My Lords, the States are informed, by their Am-
bajjador, that the Parliament fuffers the Spaniard to
take up Men at London to ferve again/I them in
Flanders. Many of the well-offered here are fcanda-
lized at it, as if the Parliament inclined much to fa-
vour the Interejls o/*Spain.

They fpeak about the Parliament's maintaining Trade
with Dunkirk their Enemy, yet forbid them the Trade
of the Havens in the King's Hands.

It is like there will be ill Blood betwixt the King
of Portugal and this State ;for the Portugal s in Bra-
zil, in the Weft-Indies, have taken ajlrong Fort,
called St. Auftin's Fort, from the States, and, fome
fay, two Ships laden with Arms, fent from hence. The
Portugal AmbaJJador here will not fend to know any
thing of it, nor avow it as the King's Aft ; in the
mean Time the Weft-India Company are pre-
paring Ships and * * * for their Relief, and have
50,000!. to do it withalL Tour Honours will fee
the Story more fully by the inclofed Letter, printed
here.

My Lords, there is a conjiant Report, believed by
many, that a Fleet of twenty-eight great Ships Jhall
lie upon cur Seas for the King of France. Tbis is
of great Concernment ; and though I will not write
it for a Certainty, nothing yet being a fled in it by

the

1 3 $ efhe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Oar. I. the State , yet I have heard it fpoken of by Men of

t l6*s' .. Duality ; Jo that I durjl not but advertize your Ho-

Deccmbcr nours of it, as a Thing which is jealous; but if the

Ships be to be made or bought here, as fame report they

are, it will give Jealoufy to others as well as to us. I

Jhall give you Advice as I Jhall have further Occajion,

hereafter.

I bear, from good Hands, that not only France and
Sweden, but mojt of the Princes 0/ Germany declare
themfelves favourable to the Intereft of the Elector's
Family j andfome think the Swedes and the Emperor
might more eaftly agree than the Houfe of Auftria and
the French.

The Prince 0/"Orange came home lajl Night late^ or
this Morning, for it was after Midnight when he came
into the Hague.

I am informed that Sir John Henderfon, who came
out of Denmark to * * * * *, was here ; that he
faith + he will go into Scotland from hence ; and that
the King willjpeedily make a Peace with the Parlia-
ment of England or Scotland, but not with both :
This is Dejign not Opinion. I am,

Right Honourable,

Your moft humble Servant,
H.F«, NOV. (i WALTER STRICKLAND*

This Letter was ordered to be communicated to
the Houfe of Commons, and their Concurrence
defired, that it may be recommended to the Admi-
ralty to have a Care of the Sea Affairs.

Jhfcommow, December. On the firft of this Month the Houfe

in regard to p'ro- of Commons debated the Proportions of Peace to be

motions and fent to the King, and, inter alia, came to the fo!T

SSSd^Sfi- towing remarkable Refoluticns:

tions for Peoce. ' That his Majefty be defired, in thefe Propofi-

tions, to grant the Title and Dignity of a Baron of

England to Sir Thomas Fairfax* and the Heirs

2 Male

of ENGLAND. 139

Male of his Body ; and that an Eftate in Land of An- " Car. 1.

5000!. per Annum be fettled on him and his Heirs v 6*5' t

for ever, in Fee Simple, in Acknowledgment of his December,
many great and faithful Services to the Kingdom :
That his Father, Ferdinando Lord Fairfax [of
Scotland] be made a Baron and an Earl ot England.'
And, for the fameReafons,

' That Robert Earl of EJfex, Algernoon Earl of
Northumberland^ Robert Earl of Warwick (a), and
Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, be made
Dukes ; and that William Earl of Salisbury, and
Edward^zA of Manchejier, be made Marquifles.

' That William Lord Vifcount Say and Sele9
'John Lord Roberts , Francis Lord Willoughby of Par-
ham, and Philip Lord Wharton, be made Earls.

That Denzil Holies, Efq; be made a Vifcount
of England.

* That Sir Henry Vane, fenior, be made a Baron.

* That Oliver Cromwell, Efq; Lieutenant-Gene-
ral, and Sir William Waller, be made Barons of
England, and have each 2500 /. per Annum, fettled
on them and their refpeiStive Heirs for ever, in Fee
Simple.

« That Sir Arthur Hafelrig and Sir Philip Sta-
pylton have each 2000 /. per Annum.

1 That Sir William Brereton have I5OO/. per
Annum. And,

« That Major-General Skippon have iooo/. /*r
Annum, fettled on them and their refpe&ive Heirs
for ever, in Fee Simple.

' That the Perfons now named to be created
Dukes, Marquifles, Earls, Vifcounts, or Barons,
fliall inherit the faid refpe&ive Titles and Dignities,
in the fame Priority and Precedency, according to
thofe refpective Titles of Dignity, or other Pre-
cedencies they now hold.

« That

(a) In the Refolution relating to the Earl of ff'arwicl, there )<• this
remarkable Lim tation of the Titles, viz. ' To defccnd open hii
Grandchild, and upon the Heirscf his Grandchild ; with a Claufe of
Exception, That it may not defccnd upon the Lord Rick, his now eldcft
Son.' Th;s, we prefume, was owing to the Lord Ritb'i havirg
keen in Arms againft th« Parliament.

December.

<fbe Parliamentary HISTORY

* That the Lands and Eftates this Day conferred,
except the Eftate conferred upon Sir Thomas Fair-
fax^ fhall not inure to the Perfons they are confer-
red upon, until the Public Debts and Engagements
« of the Kingdom be firft fatisfied.

* That this Houfe doth declare, That it fhall be
an acceptable Service for any Perfon to inform this
Houfe of any of their Members that, by himfelf,
or others, directly or indirectly, hath taken or re-
ceived any Money or other Thing, of any Perfons,
for any Matter depending in this Houfe, or any
Committee thereof, fmce the Beginning of this
Parliament.'

Mr. IVhitlocke (a) adds to the foregoing Refalu-
tions* That the Lord Howard was to be made an
Earl, alfo Sir Philip Stapylton, and Sir Arthur Ha-
felrig, Barons : But the 'Journals make no Men-
tion of thefe three laft intended Promotions.

December 2. This Day the Earl of Manchejler
acquainted the Lords, That he had received a
Letter from the Earl of Leven, with Notice that he
was come up with the Scots Army to Newark \ and
defired to know who {hould command there in
Chief. Upon this the Houfe thought fit to ap-
point General Leven to command all the Forces,
both Englijh and Scots, that {hould be employed be-
fore Newark, during their Continuance at that
Place : But, at a Conference with the other Houfe
about this Appointment, the Commons were not
willing to truft the Command to one Tingle Perfon,
A Joint-Corn- and defired that a Joint-Committee of Englijh and
mittee of Eng- gcots {hould refide with the Army before Newark
Con^ffione'rs and a& in that Office ; which was agreed to by the
appointed to at- Lords, with this Provifo, That the Englijh Com-
mittee {hould confift of a Number of Lords and
Commons, to act under fuch Inftructions as {hould
be agreed on by both Houfes.

The Siege of this important Town, which had
long been a great Grievance to thq Parliament,

beinj
(«) Memriflt, p. 188.

tend the Parlia
ments Army at
the Sie^e of
Newark.

of ENGLAND. 14i

being now begun; this Day, December 5, the fo'- Am ar Car. I.
lowing Intelligence came from thence, and was l64>-
communicated to the Lords, along with a Letter D~cevT~
from the Scots Commiffioners in London. The
Letter was as follows :

For the Rt. Hon. the Lord GREY of Wark,
Speaker of the Houfe of PEERS pro Tempore.

My Lord,

receivedYeJIernight, in a Letter from bis Ex- intelligence from
cellency the Earl o/"Leven, the Particulars ^"thence.
the taking of Mufkam-Bridge, which we fend you
here inclofed. The Officers and Soldiers of our Army
are reduced to greater Wants and Extremities than
we are willing to exprefs ; and unlefs they be very
fpeedilyfuppliedwith Money ^ Cloaths^ and other Necef-
farJ£sy they are no ways able to projecute the Service :
We do therefore earnejlly entreat^ that you would be
pleafed to put the Houfes in mind to give Order for their
Supply with all poffible Expedition. The General hath
written divers Times to the Committees at Derby,
Nottingham, and Lincoln, to contribute their Ajjift-
ance in furnijhing them with Provijions^ but hath re-
ceived no Anfwer j which moveth us again to dejirey
that the Houfes would be pleafed to appoint fame to re-
pair thither ', ivho may take Care to furnijh them with
Provijions j which Jhall oblige us to remain,

Your Lordfhip's very affe&ionate Friends,
Worcefter- Houfe, And humble Servants,

Dec. 5, 1645.

BALMERINO.
CHAR. ERSKINE. H. KENNEDY.

The Letter referred to in the foregoing was as
follows :

TTPON the 26th of this Injlant November, -having
^ come to this Place^ within a Mile of the Town,
1 cauffd to draw a Line clofe to Mufkh^m-Bridge,

where-

142 tfhe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. zi Car. I. whereupon I placed Mufqueteers^ and fought

1645. ^ to croft the River ^ andJJorm the Sconce upon the other-
Side ; but the Enemy ^ apprehending the Defign^ /allied
out Teflerday Morning before the Break of the Day+
and attempted the cutting ojf the Bridge, from which
they were beat off by our Mufqueteers with little Lofs;
afterwards they fet Fire to the Draw-Bridge , but
our Forces falling on did beat them back, and cx~
tinguijhed the Fire, which made them forfake their
Works ; fo that we are now Majiers both of Bridge
and Sconce.

But whilft this bloody Scene was carrying on
in the Depth of Winter, the Houfe of Commons,
it feems, were not unmindful of Peace ; for the
fame Day they fent up a Meflage to the Lords,
importing, ' That they had considered the great
PrefTures and Miferies the Kingdom laid under,
by this unnatural War ; and out of their Defires
to have a fafe and well-grounded Peace obtained,
they had prepared fome Proportions to be prefent-
ed to his Majefty, in which were fome Altera-
tions different from thofe prefented formerly to
him ; and to which they defired their Lordfliips
Concurrence.'

Dec. 8. Whilft thefe Proportions were under
Confideration of the Lords, the Speaker acquaint-
ed that Houfe with a Letter, delivered him by a
Trumpet the Night before; it was a Letter- from
the King, incloied in one from Sir Thomas Glem-
bamy Governor of Oxford-, which was read ,as
follows («);

For

(«) Sir Thomas Gltmbam had been Governor of Carlijle, which
Garrifon he held for the King during a Siege of eleven Months, but,
upon furrendering it to General Lefly, had Liberty to march to
•wherever the King was } accordingly, in September this Year, he was
made Governor of Oxford, in the Room of Col. Legge, who had been
imprifoned by the the King, after Prince Ruferft Surrender of Brif~
tol, as a Perfon much in his Highr.elVs Favour, and therefore liMe
to he fubfervient to any of his Commands*

Clartudoa, Vol. IV. p. 695. Wb'ttlttl, p. 159,

oj ENGLAND.

For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS pro " 1645."'
Temtoore.

CHARLES R.

MajeJIy being deeply fenftble of the Continua- The King'.
«/*/£/* £700^ <w«/ unnatural War. can- Mu "' of the
himfelf difcharged of the Duty be owes *
God, or the Affeflion and Regard be has to ths
Preservation of his People, without the conjlant Appli-
cation of bis earneji Endeavours to find fame Expedient
for thefpeedy ending ofthefe unhappy Dijlrafiiom (a),
[if that may be] doth therefore defire, That a Safe-
Conduft may be forthwith fent for the Duke of Rich-
mond, the Earl ^Southampton, John Afhburnham,
and Jeffrey Palmer, Efqrs. and their Attendants , with
Coaches^ Horfes, and other Accommodations for their
Journey to Weftminfter, during their Stay there, and
return when they Jhall think fit : Whom his MajeJIy
intends to fend to the Lords and Commons ajjembled
in the Parliament of England at Weftminfter, and
the CommiJJioners of the Parliament of Scotland, fur-
nijhed with fuch Propofitions as his MajeJIy is confi-
dent will be the Foundation of a happy and well-
grounded Peace.

Given at the Court at Oxford the 5th of Decem-
ber; 1645.

The Lords took this Meffage from the King im-
mediately into Confideration ; and it was moved to
fend it to the Commons with this Senfe upon it, viz.

* That this Houfe did not think it fit there fhould

* be a Safe-Condu& granted to thofe four Perfons

* upon this Letter.1 But the Queftion being put
Whether to have this Senfe declared before it be
fent down ? it was refolved in the Negative. There-
upon the Letter was fent to the Houfe of Com-
mons, with a Defire only that they would commu-
nicate it to the Scots Commiflkmers.

Dec. 9. The Trumpet which brought the fore-
going Packet from the King, was fent back with

the

"(«) Omitted in Rujbivortb, but fupplijd from the King't Workt.

144

*Tbe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2 1 Car. I. the following Letter, figned by the Speakers of
I6*5- . both Houfes:

December.

For Sir THOMAS GLEMHAM, Governor of

Oxford.
S I R,

J/[fE have received your Letter ofthe$th Jnjlant,
with his Majeflys inclofed, and have fent back
your Trumpet by Command of both Houfes , who will*
with all convenient Speed, return an Anfwer to bis
Majejly, and rejf,

Your loving Friends, &c,

Dec. 10. The Houfes had long been upon fend-
ing an Anfwer to the Papers they had received from
Scotland^ which being, at laft, agreed upon, was
read in the Houfe of Lords this Day.

TbeParliameiit's
Anfwer to the
feyeral Papers
lately prefented
by the Scots
Commiffioners-

THE Lords and Commons aflembled in
the Parliament of England at Wejiminjler,
having received feveral Papers from the Com-
miffioners of the Parliament of Scotland, particu-
larly one of the 2Qth of September, and another of
the Qth of Oftober, to the Matters therein con-
tained they return this Anfwer :
4 Concerning the Payment of the Scots Army,
fo much infifted on in your Lordfliips Papers, the
feveral Declarations, and the divers Courfes and
Ways which, in the faid Papers, are exprefled,
and acknowledged by your Lordfliips to have been
made and taken by us for the Payment of that
Army, fufficiently witnefs our conftant Care
and manifold Endeavours for the Supply thereof;
and if all thofe Ways have, notwithftanding,
proved fo little effectual as your Lordfliips al-
ledge, yet can it not in any Sort be imputed to
the Houfes of Parliament ; who no fooner have
had any Wants of that Army, or any Obftruc-
tions in the Ways taken for the Entertainment
thereof, reprefented unto them, but they have

4 forthwith

*f ENGLAND.

forthwith applied themfelves to fupply the one An. 21 Car. r.
and remove the other, to the utmoft of what lay l645-
in their Power. Before the Scots Army was en-
tered into this Kingdom, we appointed a Com-
mittee to fit purpofely at Goldfmiths-HaU, to pro-
vide Monies and Neceflaries for the Support
thereof; this Committee hath fat ever fince
conftantly to that End,, and to put forward the
Execution of our Ordinances therein, whereat,

* twice a W^eek, fome of the Commiffioners of
4 Scotland themfelves were prefent, to be WitnefTes
4 and Promoters of their Diligence ; the fame
4 Committee had their Agents in every County :

* To quicken the Execution of our Orders below
4 in the Country, we allowed Salaries and Rewards
4 to the Diligent, we gave Power to punifh the
4 Negligent, and all that fhould in any Sort divert
4 or obftruft the coming in of thofe Afleffments :
4 When the Courfe firft defigncd for the Pay-
4 ment of the Scots Army, out of the Eftates of
4 Papifts and other Delinquents, anfwered not Ex-
4 pe&ation, we provided for it as for other Armies,
4 by Way of Tax and AfTeflrnent upon feveral
4 Counties ; and when h fc of the Northern Parts
4 proved inefficient for fo great a Charge, we
4 added others thereunto, and thofe of the moft
4 entire and quiet Parts of the Kingdom ; where
4 firft was laid an AfTefTment of 200,000 /. in Grofs,
4 and, after, a monthly AfTeflrnent of 21,000 /.
4 per Month. There was never any Expedient
4 offered unto us for the Removal of any Obftruc-
4 tion in the raifing of thofe AfTefTments, which
4 we did not readily alfent unto ; there was never
4 any Thing defired of us by our Brethren of
4 Scotland, which was in our Power to grant, which
4 we have not willingly agreed unto for the more
4 fpeedy and effectual Execution of oar Orders for

* the Pay and Support of that Army ; there was
4 no Courfe taken for any other Army, but we
4 have taken the like alfo for the Scots ; fo that we
4 may truly affirm, That it hath not refted <m us,

* that the Army hath not been as well paid and pro-

VOL. XIV. K vided

146

An. ^\ C«. I,

1645.

December.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

vided for, as any other whatfoever j but tf the
Activcnefs and great Succefles of fome other
Armies have given us more Credit in procuring
Money to be advanced for them, or more quick-
ned the Spirits of the People to pay in their Af-
feffments to them, furely that ought not to be
turned into Matter of Complaint againft us, ha-
ving found the fame by Experience, from Time
to Time, in the Payment of the Armies of our
own Nation ; poflibly alfo the Pay of other
Annies may appear more conftant, and their
Wants lefs, than it is well known to us that both
one and the other have been : Neither have our
Endeavours been altogether fo ineffe&ual for the
Supply of the Scots Army, but that from thefixth
of Ofiober, 1643, to tne fr^ °f November, 1645,
there hath been actually paid to them, in Money,
and Provifions for which Money hath been iflued
out of Goldfmitbs-Hally the Sum of 220,6297.
Sterling, befides ; 9000 /. in Money and Lead
paid unto them at York ; and what they have re-
ceived upon the Affeflfments of the Northern Parts,
appointed to be paid into the Lord Mayor of
Yorky and upon the Fifth and Twentieth Part,
and from the Coal and Excife of Newcajile, and
of the Northern Parts, or otherwife, by any Af-
fignments of both Houfes of Parliament; and
likewife befides another Affignment of 2000 1. per
Month, affeffed upon the County of York,- in
Monies and Provifions, for four Months during
the Siege of York and after, amounting to 88,ooo/.
and allb befides io,ooo/. more to cloath the
Soldiers of that Army upon their Return to New-
cajlle, over and above ail that themfelves had le-
vied in the feveral Counties where they have
been, and their free Quarter and diforderly Plun-
derings ; which (if they have been fo exceflive
as the Cry thereof from feveral Parts reprefenteth
them to our Ears) it is not much to be wondered
at, if the Water run more fparingly from the
Citterns and Conduit, when it is fo much ex-
haufted at the Spring Head, from whence the

4 Aflefiments

of E N G L A N D. 147

* AfTeflfments for the Entertainment of that Army, An- *> Car. I.
' and others, mould have rifen.

* Concerning the Excife of the Northern Parts,

* and the Ways that are alledgec4 to be taken to di-
c vert it from the Setts Army, by Foreftalling it here

* in the South, and apply ing it here to other Ufes ; no

* fuch Practices have been made known to us ; and

* whenfoever they fhall be difcovered, we ftiall be
' ready to apply fitting Remedies thereunto.

' And for the Coal of NewcaQle ; poffibly the
' Profits thence arifing might fall very fhort of the
' Eftimate made thereof, in fome one Month ;
' but, in other Months, it hath come in in greater
4 Quantities ; and we find that, for thefe Tvvelve-
' months laft paft, there hath actually come in, and

* been taken to the Ufe of that Army, upon the
' Coals ofNewcaftle and Sunderland^ above 53,000 L
' Sterling, whereof 45007. were of the Cuftorris

* belonging to the Navy : And if, upon taking of
' Nc^vcaJtte by the Scots Army, the Courfe for the
' managing of the Coals, fettled by both Houfes
' of the Parliament of England, in the Committee
« of Goldfmiths-Hall, had not been interrupted,
' the Committee might have been better able tc>
' have given an Account of any Decay of Tracte

* therein, and how it hath happened that many

* Months it hath fallen below the firft Eftimate

* thereof.

' Having made Anfwer to the moft material

4 Points in your Lordlhips Papers^ concerning the

c Pay of the Scots Army; as you have very fre-

' quentlyand very/reely declared unto us the Wants

' and Neceffities thereof, through Default of Pay,

* fo mall we alfo, with the like Freedom and Bro-
« therly Affe&ion, reprefent to our Brethren of
' Scotland fome Particulars concerning the Proceed-
c ings of that Army: It is well known unto your
' Lordfhips, that we have, upon divers Occafions,

* fignified our Advices and Directions how that
e Army might employ itfelf moft effe&ually for

* the Advancement of the Public Service of this

* Kingdom, by engaging againft the Common

K i ' Enemies,

An. 2 1 Car. I.

1645.

November.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

Enemies, and the Places held and poffefled by
them ; wherein, by what Occafion we know
not, we have found ourfelves feveral Times
disappointed of our Hopes and Expectations ; by
which Means not only the Common Caufe hath
been retarded, but alfo the Ends fruftrated for
which the Afliftance of fo great an Army was
defired by 'us, which was, that a fpeedy Conclu-
fion might be put to thefe unhappy Wars. We
ftiall not need to go further back for an Inftance
than to that whereof the Senfe is freftieft in our
Minds, and which, in that Conjuncture of Time,
and of our Affairs, proved very prejudicial to the
Service of this Kingdom ; which was the conti-
tinuing of that Army in the North, where no
Enemy was, and not marching to btfiege New-
ark, at fuch Time as it was thereunto defired
by both Houfes of Parliament ; although they not
only expreffed their Defires therein, but alfo their
Care in the Provifion of Money and Ammuni-
tion to enable and encourage them to undertake
that Work ; but having received no Satisfaction
at all in that Particular, 'till that now, by your
Lordftiips Letter of the I2th of November., the
Refolution of the General, the Earl of Leven,
concerning the Marching of that Army towards
Newark^ was fignified unto us : By Means of
this Delay, not only the Nwthern Parts have
lain all this while under a moft unfupportable
Burden, but alfo the faireft Opportunity that
hath yet offered itftlf unto us, fmce the Begin-
ning of this War, of putting an End to our
Miferies, together with the Seafon of the Year,
for the fpeedy reducing of that Place, which
was the principal Ground of our Refolution in
that Particular, is already dipt out of our Hands;
and the Advance of the 3O,ooo/. which we had

gx>d Hope, and fome ArTurance of, f ; : in the
ity, for the UTe of that Army, in cafe it caiv.e
to Neivark before the firft of November, and net
otherwife, is rendered more difficult and d.QubU
ful unto us.

* It

^/ENGLAND. 149

* It was far from our Intentions, that the Scots An.ziCar. r.

* Army fhould neither be provided for by us, nor t >645< J

* yet fuffered to provide for their own Subfiftance ; December.
4 nor doth the contrary appear by any Ac-Hons or

4 Omiffions on our Part, nor yet by any Sufferings

* of that Army; but that, according to our Power^
4 we have made Provifion for them, and that they

* alfo have fupplied themfelves.

* We {hall remember, according to your Lord-
4 {hips Expreffions in your Paper^ That not writ-
4 ten Ordinances but real Payments mujl fatisfy the
4 Necejfities of the Soldiers ; and we hope it {hall be

* as well remembered alfo, how far better than Pa-

* per our Ordinances have proved to that Army,

* which hath not been more ready to engage itfelf

* really in the Service of this Kingdom, than we
4 have been forward to pay it, and really to fatisfy

* the Neceffities of the Soldiers; and therefore de-

* fire that fuch Expreffions may be foreborne,
4 which may feem to derogate either from the Ho->

* nour of the Proceedings or of the Ordinances of
4 Parliament.

' When the Treaty was concluded between the
4 two Kingdoms, it was fuppofed that fuch might
' be the Wants or Neceffities of this Kingdom, as

* that they might not be able to make due and con-
4 ftant Payments of the Scots Army ; yet was it
4 not fuppofed, that, in Default thereof, they might
4 forbear to engage their Army, much lefs lay
4 Taxes upon the People of England to pay them-
4 felves, this Kingdom being to give their public
4 Faith for the Payment of their Arrears, with In-
4 tereft ; as, on the other Side, the Kingdom of
4 Scotland gave their Public Faith, That neither
4 their Entrance into, nor Continuance in the King-
4 dom of England^ ftiould be made ufe of to any
4 other Ends than fuch as are contained in the Co-

* venant and Articles of the Treaty. That it is
4 contrary to the Liberties of the Subjects of Eng-
4 land) that any Taxes or Levies of Money IhoulJ
4 be made, raifed, or levied upon them, without
« the Confent of both Houfes of Parliament, we

K •? . 4 need

The Parliamentary HISTORY

need not declare to your Lordfhips : And we are
forry that the Cries of the People which continu-
ally found in cur Ears, efpecially of the Northern
Parts, brought to us under the Hands of fuch as
we have entrufted there, fhould- enforce us to re-
prefent unto our Brethren of Scotland, the great
Complaints, which, long fince, and at this pre-
fent, are made of the laying of Taxes of Money,
and other Things, by fome of the Scots Army ;
and that alfo in very vaft and exceffive Propor-
tions, befides free Quarterings, and diforderly
Plunderings of Horfes, and other Goods ; which
Courfes being taken and continued, it cannot be
expected that we fhould continue the Monthly
Pay of that Army ; which, though we have not
taken Occafion to flop and furceafe upon Taxes
and Levies of Money, and other Proceedings of
that Army, yet we expect, as that which of Right
is due, that, out of it, Deduction and Satisfac-
tion fhall be given in the Premifes.

* And as we are obliged to make good the
monthly Pay of that Army, according to the
Treaty^ fo long as we fhall find it neceflary to
ufe the Affiftance thereof within this Kingdom,
and no longer j fo is that Army likewife bound
to demean themfelves conformable to the Te-
nour of the Treaty j and, according thereunto, to
give Satisfaction unto this Kingdom that fuch
Forces of the Scots Nation, as have been put into
the feveral Garrifons of Ncwcajlle upon Tyne> the
City of Garlijle, and other Places in the North,
without the Confent of both Houfes of the Par-
liament of England, fhall be removed ; to the In-
jent that the fame may he difpofed of in fuch
Manner as fhall be thought fitting by the faid
Houfes of Parliament, the Performance whereof
we have demanded from the Kingdom of Scotland,
by our Letters to that Parliament.

* Thefe Things we held ourfelves bound to re-
* prefent to our Brethren of Scotland^ as well in
«e Difcharge of the Truft repofed in us, for the Pre-
5 iervation of the Intereft and Liberties of this

' Kingdom,

tf ENGLAND. i5I

Kingdom, as aJfo the better to maintain the U- An. 21 Car. r.
nion and good Correfpondency between the two
Kingdoms ; which being the fureft Foundation
of Security :-.nd Profperity to both Kingdoms, it
always hath, and always mall be the firm Refo-
lution of both Houfes of the Parliament of Eng-
land, to maintain and preferve the fame, accord-
ing to the Covenant and Treaty; the common
Rules and Marks which both Kingdoms have fet
up to themfelves to freer their Courfe by in the
purfuing of their joint Interefts, and for the at-
taining of the good Ends therein exprefled and
contained, from which we defire that there may be
no Swerving on either Side ; hoping and expect-
ing the like Redrefs and Satisfaction fjom our
Brethren of Scotland, upon any Infringement
thereof, as we fhould be ready to give unto them,
if any fuch Thing fhould happen on our Part.
' Concerning Religion and the fettling of Church
Government ; as there is nothing wherein we
have more defired to approve our Confciences
to God, and our Actions to the World, fo do our
Hearts give us a very clear Teftimony of the
faithful and diligent Difcharge of our Duty there-
in, according to the Truft repofed in us, and the
Covenant taken by us ; and we conceive our Ac-
tions witnefs no lefs to all that will rightly weigh
and confider what we have already done therein,
and with what Diligence and Zeal we have, from
time to time, proceeded in that Work of God ;
being refolved to continue in fo doing, till we
have fully fupplied what mall yet appear to be
wanting therein : It being always to be remem-
bred, that the preferving the Liberty and Free-
dom of our Debates and Refolutions in Parlia-
ment, it is not to be interpreted or termed Negli-
gence or Delay in us.

* As to the Proportions- of Peace to be fent to his
Majefty, in Purfuance of our Refolutions of tjie
6th of Augnjl, communicated to your Lordfhips ;
we have proceeded therein as the Exigence of our

' our

An. 2 1 Car. I.
' 1645.

December.

A Draught of an
Answer to the
foregoing Mef-
fage from the

*fbe Parliamentary HISTORY

Affairs would permit ; and the Proportions being
at this prefent continually in Agitation and De-
bate in Parliament, we are refolved to apply our-
felves both fpeedily and effe&ually to the perfecl:-
ing of them, according to the prefent State of Af-
fairs ; and we doubt not but our Actions fhall
teftify to our Brethren of Scotland, and all the
World, that there is no earthly Thing more in our
Thoughts and Defires, than the fettling of a fafe
and well-grounded Peace in the three Kingdoms,
for which we have done and fuffered as much as
any Kingdom in the World.

JO. BROWN, Cler. Par.

The fame Day the following Draught of an An-
fwer to the King's laft MejJ'age was read and agreed
to by the Lords ; the Earl of Lincoln, though he
had taken the Covenant fmce he was laft admitted
into the Houfe, only diflenting.

May it pleafe your Majejly,

THE Lords and Commons aflembled in the
Parliament of England at Wejlminjler, have
received your Letter of the 5th of this Inftant
December, by a Trumpet from Sir Thomas Glem-
ham ; and having, together with the Commifiion-
ers of the Parliament of Scotland, taken the fame
into their ferious Confiderations, have commanded
us to return this their humble Anfvuer.
' They have, in all their Actions, manifefted
to your Majefty and the World, their fincere
Defires that a fafe and well-grounded Peace
might be fettled in your three Kingdoms ; and
for the obtaining fo great a Blefling, fhall ever
pray unto God, and ufe their utinoft Endeavours ;
and (hbuld have counted it a great Happinefs, if
your Majefty's Actions had been anfwerable to
the Expreflions you have fo often made concern-
ing yourDefire of Peace.

* As to you Majefty's Defire of a Safe-Con-
* dudl for the coming hither of the Duke of ' Rich'-

of ENGLAND.

mond, the Earl of Southampton, John AJhburnham, An- *» Car. r.
and Jeffry Palmer, Efqrs; with Proportions from t l645'. f
you ; the Perfons formerly employed from your December.
Majefty, on the like Occafion, having agitated
other Thing to the Difadvantage of the Parlia-
ment, they cannot admit thereof.
* And finding that former Treaties have been
made Ufe of by your Majefty for other Ends,
under Pretence of Peace, the Lords and Com-
mons, and the Commiffioners for the Kingdom
of Scotland, fithence the Breach of the Treaty at
Uxbridge, have refolved and agreed to fend Pro-
pofitions and Bills unto your Majefty, for the ob-
taining of a fafe and well-grounded Peace j and to
defire your Anfwer unto them, without any
Treaty to be had thereupon ; and this they intend
to do with all convenient Speed.'

Dec. 13. The foregoing Draught being ordered Which bring

to be communicated to the Scots Commiffioners for C0l"mun cated

... , . . - ,. , to the Scots

their Approbation, before it was fent away, they Commiflionere,

returned the following Anfwer and Exceptions to
Jt:

Dec. 12, 1645.
My Lords and Gentlemen,

HAving received from your Lordfhips his
Majefty's Letter of the fth of this Inftant,
to the Houfe of Peers, and at the fame Time a •
Draught of the Anfwer of both Houfes to that
Letter, we find in that Anfwer fome Particulars,
wherein we are named as Confenters, to which
we cannot agree ; neither would it, we are con-
fident, have been expected from us, if our former
Papers had been confidered, or we confulted
therein, as formerly upon the like Occafions ;
concerning which we are ready to give your
Lordfhips Satisfaction by Conference.'

fiy Command of the Commiffioners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

EXCEPTIONS

154'

December.

The Parliamentary H r s T o R Y

EXCEPTIONS to the foregoing Draught of an AN6WER
to the KING'S Mefiage,

\Tt7Hereas, according to the Order of both
* * Houfes of Parliament, a Draught of their
Anf-juer to his Majefty's late Letter is, by this
Honourable Committee, communicated to us
the Commiffioners of the Parliament of Scotland^
we have taken both the Letter and the Draught
of the Anfwer into our ferious Conlideration ;
and, with the Honourable Houfes, do, in the
Name of the Parliament of Scotland^ from our
Hearts pray and defire, according to our former
Wifhes and Endeavours, that a fate and well-
grounded Peace may be fettled in his Majefty's
Dominions j which we are apt to conceive may
now, by the Bleifing of God, be brought to pafs,
when both his Majefty hath made the Motion on
one Hand, and the Honourable Houfes of Par-
liament have refolved and agreed to fend Propoft-
tions and Bills to his Majefty, on the other, for
the fame much-defired End.
< Only, according to our Intereft and Affection,
and in Relation to fo great a Happinefs, we do
exprefs our Senfe concerning fome Particulars- in
the Anfwer :

' Firjiy If that it may feem good to the Wifdom
of the Honourable Houfes, inftead of thefe
Words, And Jhould have accounted it a great Hap-
pinefs if your M.ajejly's Actions had been anfwerablt^
that the Expreflion might run thus, And Jhall ac-
count it a great Happinefs that your Majejlfs Ac-
tions be anfuuerable.

* Next) Concerning that Part of the Anfwer ',
which feemeth to bar all further Treaty^ we re-
fer ourfelves to our Paper of the i4th of Augujl^
wherein we declared ourfelves moft willing, that
not only the three main Proportions debated at
Uxbridge^ but alfo all or any of the other Propofi-
tions of Peace, already agreed upon by the joint
Confent of both Kingdoms, which, upon mu-

< tual

of ENGLAND.

* tual Debate, fliould be adjudged necefiary, fhould An. 21 Car. j.

* be fent, with a Defire of a pofitive Anfwer with-
4 out any Treaty ; but, withal, did {hew, that if
4 any new Propofitions of Peacs, or any material Ad-
4 ditions to, or Alterations of, the former Propoji-
4 tions were to be lent, in that Cafe we were necef-
' fitated to fend them to the Kingdom of Scotland^
4 to be there conlidered and approved ; as is more

* fully contained in that our Paper^ which we de-
4 fire may be taken into Confideration at this
4 Time ; and this is all that is in our Power, or can
c be expected from us, in Matters of fo great Im-

* portance as cannot be determined without the
4 particular Knowledge and exprefs Confents of the

* Parliaments of both Kingdoms-, united by fo
4 many Bonds of Covenant of doing and fuftaining
4 in this common Caufe.

To the Point of denying the Safe-Conduct ; the
4 Houfes having declared their Opinion, we do

* agree, and earneftly do defire that, without
4 Delay, the Prcpo/jtions, already agreed upon,
4 may be fent to his Majefty, for a poiitive Anfwer\
4 but if any of them be altered, or any other mate-

* rial Difference be intended, which may lay a Ne-

* ceffity upon us offending them to the Parliament

* of Scotland^ to be there c oniidered and returned

* hither with their Senfe ; and fo the Winter, the
' fitteft Seufon for a Treaty^ fpent in Debates upon
4 new Propcfitions, the prefent Opportunity loft,
4 Occafion given to our Enemies to ufe the

* more Art and Induftry for bringing in fo-
4 reign Forces, when they apprehend, by our De-

* lays, their Motion of Peace not to be entertain-
4 ed, (befides many other Inconveniences well
4 known to. the Honourable Houfes, and felt by all
4 the three Kingdoms, which accompany our pre-
4 fent Diilra&ions) the Continuance or Increafe
4 of the common Miferies, through not fettling of
4 a happy Peace^ cannot be imputed to us ; who

* have not ceafed conftantly to exprefs the fending

* the Proportions agreed upon by both Kingdoms, ,
f ever fmce the 20th of June laftj have uftd our

4 beft

156 *The Parliamentary Hi's TORY

An. » car. j. « beft Endeavours, upon all Occafions, with the
t ' **' , Honourable Houfcs, from Time to Time ; and
December. have left no good Ways or Means, in our Power,
uneflay'd, which might deliver thefe Kingdoms
out of their Trouble and Sufferings, and fettle
them in a blefled Peace : It is therefore our earneft
Defire, That the present Opportunity of Pacifi-
cation be improved, unto which we are ready to
' join our utmoft Endeavours, waiting for the
' Succefsfrom the Bleffing or God.

By Command of the ContmiJJioners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

Dec. 16. The following Inftru£Hons for the
Committee, who were to refide in the Scats Army
before Newark^ were read and agreed to»

INSTRUCTIONS for John Earl of Rutland,
Theophilus Earl of Lincoln, Francis Lord Wil-
loughby of Parham, Edward Lord Montague,
Members of the Houfe of Peers j William Piere-
point, EJquire^ Sir William Armyn, Baronet,
Sir Arthur Hefelrig, Bart. Sir Edward Afcough,
5/VChriftopherWray, Sir Anthony Irby, Knights,
Thomas Hatcher and William Ellys, Efquires^
Members of the Houfe of Commons.

InftrnftJrns for
ifceCf>n>nr-:ee
of both H ufes
epp im.di >re-
£cc w:th the
•A»my Ktforc
Knnftk,

Xl^HEREAS by feveral Treaties, agreed be-
tween the two Kingdoms, divers Things
are to be performed and done, by the joint Ad-
vice of both Kingdoms, or their Committees
thereunto authorized, which cannot be fo well
tranfa&ed but by thofe upon the Place : You, or
any three of you, whereof one Peer, and
two Members of the Houfe of Commons, always
to be prefent, have hereby full Power and Autho-
rity given you, to go to the Scots Army now in
England ; and to advife, debate, and conclude,
with our Brethren of Scotland^ or fuch as fhaJl be
authorized by them thereunto ; and, by joint Ad-
vice with them, to put in Execution all fuch

« Matters

of E N G L A N D. » 157

* Matters and Things, concerning the well Or- An. 21 Car. I.
' dering, Directing, and Difpofal of the Forces i6*5-

' brought in and employed by them for our Aflift-

* ance, as fhall be found requifite, and needful,
' from Time to Time, for the Profecution of this
' Caufe, and the Ends exprefled in the Covenant :

* And have hereby full Power and Authority to

* order, difpofe, and direct the faid Army, accord-

* ing to the Articles of the Treaty.

* You (hall do your utmoft Endeavour, that the
' Enemy be vigoroufly profccuted, and all Advant-

* ages taken for the fpeedy ending of this War.

4 You fhall take fpecial Care for the reducing

* of Newark, and that the Forces do quarter as

* near thereunto as may be.

' You are to do your utmoft Endeavours, for the
' Continuance of a good Correfpondence betweau
c the two Kingdoms, and their Forces.

' You are to acquaint them with the great
c Streights we are in, for Want of Money j and,

* that whatfoever failing of Payments (according
' to the Treaty] have been from hence, have not

* proceeded from any Want of Affection or Inten-

* tion to make good our Engagements.

* You are to acquaint them, That a monthly

* Afleflment is made for Maintenance of their

* Army ; and that Care is taken for the fpeedy
' Payment thereof.

* You are to take Care, that, from Time to

* Time, exact Mufters be taken, by fuch as you

* fhall appoint, of all the Forces, both Horfe and
' Foot, and Train of Artillery, now under the

* Command of the General the Earl of Leven ;
' which you fhall, from Time to Time, certify to

* both Houfes of Parliament.

' That there be no Want of Provifions, and
« other Neceflaries, for the Armies, you are hereby

* authorized to fend Warrants, under the Hands
' of you, or any three of you, as aforefaid,
' unto the Counties of York, Lincoln, Nottingham,
' Derby, Leicejler, Rutland, Northampton, Cam-

* bridge i and the Ifle of Ely, or any other Counties

j * adjacent,

7& Parliamentary. Hi s To R Y
1 cir.l. < adjacent, as you fbdl think fit, for the furnilhing
t ProvHions, and other NecefTaries, for-tbe Army :
< And you are to calllto your Aflifl-ahce, and to
4 name and authorife, fuch Geritlemen .and others,
' in the.aforefaid Counties, as. you fhalli think fit,

* to be Sub-Committees, for the better putting this
' faftruttton in due 'Execution : And'tbeifeiu Corrt-

* .mittees in the faid feveral:Counties a-reJ^rehy re-

* quired to be, froniTime to Time,- 'aidrng iartd
« aflift ing to you herein,

• •* fYoii are to endeavour, that all Provifions, br

* other 'Necefiaries, provided by your Care, be fo

* ordered, .that Account may be made of what is
' taken; and that the.. iaid Provifions .may -be-dif-
' counted, upon the Piiy of the feid Army, as alfo

* whatfoever Provifions have -or fliall be takert, by

* the Scots Forces, either by Ticket or without.

* Your are to take, Care, that there be no Plun-

* dering, Robbing, or Spoiling of the Countries

* where the faid Armies fliall be: And that equal
' Juftice be done between the Army and the
« People.

« You are to take Care, that no Protection be
' granted to any Delinquent, contrary to the Or-
' diwmces of Parliament.

' You are further to take^Care, that the feveral
4 QrArnancti be put in due Execution agatnft Papifts

* and Delinquents, notwithstanding any Protection

* whatfoever.

You are to acquaint both Houfes of your Pro-

* ceedings, from Time to Time ; and to obferve

* thefe InftruftioflS* and (itch farther Directions and
c Inftruftions as you jOball hereafter receive from

* both Houfes of Parliament.'

Farther INSTRUCTIONS for John Earl of Rut-
land, &c. [as before.]

« XT' O U, or any three or more of you, • where-
c *• of there is to . be tone Peer and two Mem-
' bers of the Houfc of Commons always prefent,

' have

^ENGLAND, 159

* have hereby full Power and Authority to 'order An.

* and direct all the Englijh Forces that are, or fhall

* be, employed for the reducing of Newark, or that

* are, or hereafter {hall be, employed to join with,

* or be aflifting to, the Scots Army. And they are,
' from Time to Time, to give Obedience to fuch

* Orders and Commands as they {hall receive from
« you/

Dec. 17. The King having yet received no An-
' fwer to his laft Meffage, thought to fecond it
' with another j which was delivered to the Lords,

* this Day ; and was in Ixec fcrba.

For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS
pro Tempore.

CHARLES R.

7Tl S Majefty cannot but extremely wonder that Another Mef«
•*•* after fo many Exprejfions on your Part, of a fage from the

deep and feeming Senfe of the Miferies of this afflified Ki"f> Dec« J5
v j j r ^L r\ • -j ; • n forPeacc.

Kingdom, and oj the Dangers incident to Ins rer-

fon during the Continuance of this unnatural IVar 5

your many great and fo oft repeated ProteJ}ations9
That the raijing of thefe Arms hath been only

for the necejfary Defence of God's true Religion^
his Majejly's Honour^ Safety* and Profperity^ the
Peace^ Comfort^ and Security of his People, you

Jhould delay a Safe-Conduft to the Perfons mentioned
in his Majejly's Meflage of the $th of this Injlant
December, which are to be fent unto you with Pro-
pofitions for a fafe and well-grounded Peace: A
Thing fo far from having been at any Time denied
by his Majejly, ivhenfoever you have ckjired the

fame, that he believes it hath been feldom, if every
refufed amongjl the moji avowed and profejfed Ene-
mies, much lefs by Subjects to their King. But his
Majefty is refolved that no Difcouragements whatfo-
ever Jhall make him fail on his Part, of doing his
titmojt Endeavours to put an End to thefe Calami-
ties, which, if not in Time prevented, muji -prove
the Ruin of this un!:appy Nation ; and therefore

doth

*£he Parliamentary HISTORY

doth once again dcjire, That a Safe-Conduft may be
forthwith fent for thofe Perfons 'exprejfed in his
• Dec mber former Meflage : And doth therefore conjure you,
as you will anfwer to Almighty God in that Day when
• he Jhallmake Inquifition for all the Blood that hath and
' may yet be fpilt in this unnatural War^ as you tender
the Preservation and Eftablijhment of the true Religion^
by all the Bonds of Duty and Allegiance to your Kingy
or CompaJJion to your bleeding and unhappy Country ,
and of Charity to yourfelves^ that you difpofe your
Hearts to a true Senfe^ and employ all your Faculties
in a more ferious Endeavour > together with his Ma-
jejiy, to put afpeedy End to thefe wajiing Diviftons ;
and then he Jhall not doubt but that God will yet again
give the BleJJing of Peace to this diflrafled King-
dom.

Given at our Court at Oxford the ijth of Decem-
ber-, 1645.

Which is taken The Lords ordered this MeJJage to be communi-
intoConfidera- cated to the Houfe of Commons, and to the
^coU Commiffioners, that an Anfwer might be
fpeedily made to this and the laft Meffage from
the King. At the fame Time they received a
MeJJage from the Commons, that they did ad-
here to the Letter^ formerly pafled both Houfes,
in Anfwer to the King's ; and defired that the
Members of both Houfes, who were of the Com-
mittee for the two Kingdoms,, mould confer with
the Scots Commiflloners, and offer them the Rea-
ibns for adhering to this Anfwer^ and learn frora
them any Reafons they mould urge to the con-
trary.

Soon after the Commons fent up another Mef-
fage, intimating, That upon reading the King'*
Jafl Letter, this Day, they perceived it to be fo
much in Subftance with the former, that to re-
tard the fending of that Anfiuer which the Houfes
have agreed to, will be much to the Difad van-
tage of the Parliament: That the Commons had
refolved to take the Proportions for Peace in-
to Confideration, de Die in Diem j and therefore

defired

of E N G L A N D. 161

defired the Lords to expedite thofe which were An. 21 Car. I.
already brought up, and they would difpatch the i l645'
reft as foon as poffible. All which the Lords December
agreed to.

Dec. 22. The Earl of Northumberland reported
divers Papers from the Committee of both King-
doms, being the Refult of their Debates and
Confeicnces with the Scots Commiffioners concern-
ing the Anfwer to the King's Letted. All thefe
we mall give in the Order they ftand in the Lards
"Journals,

REASONS pref anted by the Members of both Houfes
to the Scots CommijfionerS) why there Jhould be
no Treaty about any Proportions to be fent to
the King.

December 17, 1645.

THAT we defire to proceed fo as may beft The Earl of
continue the Union between the two Northumber-

ir- j land's Report or

Kingdoms. a Confcr/nce

8 That the beft way to umu, is to have all paf- with the Scott
fed without Treaty ; for that then the Proportions Commiffionen,
being all granted together, to the Satisfaction of Anfwer"!? £
both, there would not be any Advantage given to fent to the fore-
divide, by gratifying one Kingdom more than |oin§
another, as would be the Cafe by a Treaty, where
the Proportions are feverally to be treated upon,
as we found upon Experience of former Treaties^
and likewife by the Letters that have been inter-
cepted fince the Treaty of Uxbridge ; by which it
appears, that other Things, prejudicial to the
Parliament, were only intended, under Colour
of a Treaty for Peace.

The Scots CommlJJlsners FIRST ANSWER.
December 18, 1645.

^ ^ave con^erec* tne Reaf°ns prefentc4
.by the Members of the Honourable
« Houfes, why there ihould be no Trtatv about
VOL. XIV, L « any

162

An. 21 Car. I
1645-

December.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

any Proportions to be fent unto the King's
jefty, and do return this Anfwer :
' That we do not prefe a Treaty upon the Pro-
pojitions debated at Uxbridge, or upon any other
Proportions formerly agreed upon by the Par-
liaments of both Kingdoms ; but we are mod
willing, and earneftly defire, that thofe Propoft-
tions may be fpeedily fent for a pofitive An-
fwer, without any Treaty ; only, if the Ho-
nourable Houfes fhall make any material Altera-
tions of, or Additions unto, the former Pro-
pofitions, they will, in their Wifdom, coniider
of us as of their own Commiffioners in the like
Exigence ; that fince thefe are not in our Power,
we cannot chufe but fend them unto the Parlia-
ment of Scotland, as we have exprefled in our
former Papers ; fo that, as we conceive, there
needeth no Debate whether it be expedient
(for preferving the happy Union of the two
Kingdoms^ which fhall ever be among the
chiefeft of our Defires ; and upon the Expe-
rience of the bad Succefs of former Treaties ,
which hath been the Caufe of many Mife-
ries to all the three Kingdoms) that there be a
Treaty at this Time ; but if it be not neceflary
to fend the Proportions of Peace, already agreed
upon, for a prefent Anfwer, without any Treaty :
This we conceive to be moft conducible,
both by reafon of the prefent Seafon, which
is not to be neglected, and becaufe of his Ma-
jefty's Defires, importunately renewed in his fe-
cond Letter of the 15:}! Inftant : Thus will it
fooner appear what may be expected by both
Kingdoms, which will be a Ground of a joint
Refolution of fettling of a firm Peace > or a vigo-
rous Profecution of the War : Whereas Conful-
tation about new Proportions^ which cannot be
directed to his Majefty before they be firft fent
into Scotland^ will certainly prove theLofs of the
prefent Opportunity, and may be an Inlet to fuch

•«• Evils

^ENGLAND. 163

' Evils as our Enemies, in their Craft and Malice An. 21 car. I.
* are projecting againft us. t l64-$-

By Command of the CommiJJioners for the Parlia- Decen^,er
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

[Though the Introduction and Conclufion of the follow-
ing Paper make //, at firjl View^feem to be a Du-
plicate of the foregoing ; yet the Difpute between
the Parliament and the Scots CommiJJioners about
the Variation of fame Exprejffions^ render it necejjary
to print bath) as will appear in the Sequel.]

December 19, 1645.

aVC con^ere^ ^e Reafons pi'efented by
the Members of the Honourable Houfes,
' why there fhould be no Treaty about any Propo-

* fitions to be fent to the King's Majefty, and do

* return this Anfwer :

' That we do not prefs a Treaty upon the Pro-
' portions debated at Uxbridge, or upon any other
*• Proportions formerly agreed upon by the Parlia-
' ments of both Kingdoms ; but are willing that
6 it be exprefled in the Anfwer to the King's Letter,
' That thofe Proportions are to be fent to his Ma~
' jefty from both Kingdoms for a pofitive Anfi*er9
' without any Treaty : But if the Honourable
' Houfes fliould make any Alteration of, or Addi-
' tion to, the former Proportions^ we have no
' Power to declare that there fhall be no Treaty
' upon them, or to confent that fo much be expref-

* fed in the Anfwer to his Majefty.

' We fhall not need to make any other Reply to

* the Reafons delivered to us ; only we conceive,

* that the fending of the Proportions^ already agreed

* upon by the Parliaments of both Kingdoms, for
' a pofitive Anfiver, will be a Means of preferving
' the happy Union of the two Kingdoms, and of
' obtaining a more fpeedy Anfwer^ than if new
' Proportions (hould be fent ; and therefoie we de-
' fire that the former Propofttions may be refolvetf

* upon to be fent with convenient Speed, both by

L 2 « reafon

164

An. 21 Car. I.
1645.

December.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

Reafon of the prefent Seafon, which is not to bs
neglected, and becaufe of his Majefty's Defires,
fo importunately renewed in his fecond Letter of
the i5th of this Inftant. Thus it will foon ap-
pear what may be expected by both Kingdoms,
which may be a Ground of their joint Refolution
for fettling a firm Peace, or a vigorous Profecu-
tion of the War : Whereas Consultations about
new Proportions, which cannot be directed to
his Majefty before they be firft fent into Scotland,,
will prove certainly the Lofs of the prefent Op-
portunity, and may be an Inlet to fuch Evils as
our Enemies, in their Craft and Malice, are pro-
jecting againft us.

By Command of the Ccmmijfionen for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

The REPLY of the Englifh Commijjionei s to the
ANSWERS given In by thofe ^Scotland.

December 19, 1645.

* T N Purfuance of an Order of both Houfes of
' •*• Parliament of the i6th Inftant, a Copy of

* which was delivered to your Lordfhips, we did

* communicate their Refolution to adhere to their

* Anfwer to the King's Letter ; and by our Paper
' of the 17 th Inftant, have acquainted your Lord-
' fhips with fome Reafons why there fhould be no

* Treaty upon any Proportions, which, by the joint
« Advice of both Kingdoms, fliall be fent to his
' Majefty ; which Reafons we thought fit to tender
1 to your Lordfhips as Heads to confer upon, and

as the moft material Thing in Difference between
the Houfes and your Lordfhips, whereby the
fending of that Letter, which both Houfes had
refolved to be fent to the King, hath been hither-
to retarded : And having feen ypur Lordfhips
Paper Yefterday, and heard the Debate there-
upon had, in Difcharge of the Commands of both
Houfes, we do further offer untp your Lordfhips
as follow :

' We

of E N G L A N D. 165

* We do obferve that what is given in Anfwer An. 21 Car. I.
' in your Paper, why there fhould be no Treaty l645-

* upon any Propofitions, doth (hew that the Propoji- ^ V7~"~
4 tions, which were fent to be treated upon at Ux-

* bridge, {hould, for the Reafons therein contained,

* be now again fent without any material Altera-
4 tion or Addition ; whereas the Bufmefs in De-
' bate, of the Letter whereto your Concurrence
' was defired, is only on the Manner how any

* Propofitions, either thofe formerly fent to Ux-

* bridge, or any other that are firft to be agreed
c upon by both Kingdoms, are to be fent unto his

* Majefty and infifted upon, without any Treaty,

* for obtaining a fafe and well-grounded Peace. To
' this we find no Anfwer given in that Paper ; but

* your Lord {hips do alledge, 'That you cannot fend any
4 new Propofitions, nor thofe formerly fent, with any
' material Alterations or Additions; in neither of
« which the Houfes have prefled your Lordfhips :
c And having already made it appear to your Lord-
c fhips, that the fending Propofitions, without
1 Treaty, will be a better Means to continue the

* Union and and good Underfl-anding between both
' Kingdoms, and of preventing Inconveniences,

* as by our faid Paper appears ; and confidering

* alfo, that your Lordfhips have thought fit that the

* Propofitions formerly fent to Uxbridge, {hould now
' again be fent for a pofitive Anfwer to be given
« unto them, without a*y Treaty, we conceive

* that, if any further Propofitions {hall be thought fit

* to be fent, or any material Alterations or Addi-
' tions made in thefe, when they fhall alfo be

* agreed on by both Kingdoms, they {hould, for
' the fame Reafon, be fent for a pofitive Anfwer,
4 without Treaty.

* And in regard your Lordfhips cannot but
' clearly apprehend, by the Debate thereupon had,

* the great Inconveniences that would follow, if
1 the Houfes {hould now depart from that Refolu-

* tion, which they have fo long fince taken i and

* which, by the intercepted Letters communicated

* to your Lorfhips, they fee greater Caufc to ad-

L l 'here

The 'Parliamentary HISTORY

* here to, and which cannot but be interpreted as a

' Willingnefs to enter again into Treaty with his

December * Majefty, which hath been found to be fo deftruc-

* tive ; your Lordfhips might be fatisfied that the
'• Houfes have Reafon to believe that you would

* concur in this of fo great Confequence to the
' Good of both Kingdoms ; and the rather, for
' your Lordfhips frequent Defire of the fpeedy
' fending Proportions^ which your Lordfhips know
e have been fo long in Debate in both Houfes of
' Parliament.

* And whereas your Lordfhips did the laft Night
' defire to give another Paper , of the fame Senfe
c with the former, we have this Morning received'
4 a Paper from your Lordfhips, wherein you do

* exprefs, That you have no Power to declare that

* there Jhall be no Treaty upon any other Proportions

* than thofe formerly fent to Uxbridge, nor upon them
' with any Alteration or Addition; or to confent that
( fo much be exprefjed in the Anfwer to his Majefty.

* To this, which we never knew before this
' Morning, we can give no further Anfwer till we
' have acquainted the Houfes therewith ; but con-
' fidering the great Inconveniency your Lordfhips
' do al ledge will enfue, by Delay of fending Pro-

* portions and a prefent Anfwer to his Majefty ;
' and for that the Inconveniences are made fo
' manifeft to your Lordfhips, of fending in any
' other Way than we have formerly exprefled ;

* and for that the Reafons to fend any Propofttionsy

* without fa Treaty^ are the fame for any other Pro-

* positions as" for thofe fent to Uxbridge ; and for
' that your Lordfhips were, above five Months
' fince, made acquainted with the Refolutions of

* both Houfes to fend Propcfttions without a Treaty $
' and alfo for that your Lordfhips did, upon the
' firft Refolntion of the Houfes to fend this Let-

* ter, defire to confer with us concerning -the

* fame, and did not declare any Want of Power :

* we therefore defire your Lordfhips to take into

* your further confideration, hovr this Letter., of

'

of ENGLAND. 167

fo great Importance, refolved upon by both An. n Car. I.
Howies, may fpeedily, with your Confent, go to^ l645-
his Majefty. _ *'

c And as to the Alteration which your Lordfhips
deflre, viz. to have thefe Words, And jbould have
accounted it a great Happlnefs if your Majefty' s
Attions had been anfwerable^ to run thus, Andjhall
account it a great Happinefs that your MajeJJy's Ac-
tions he anfwerable^ we defire it may continue
as the Houfes have refolved, to the End it may-
look as well to the Time patted as that to come.'

The REJOINDER of the Scots Commijfioners to the
rom thofe of England*

Dec. 20, 1645.

UPON the Tenth of this Inftant your-
Lordfhips did communicate unto us the.
King's Letter of the Fifth, together with the-
Anfwer of both Houfes, wherein we found our-.
felves included, as confenting to that which had
not been fo much as offered to our Consideration^
whereas, on all former Occafions, upon Matters
of the like Nature, it hath been the conftant
Practice of the Houfes to crave our Advice, and,
on mutual Conference and Debate, to agree in
one joint Refolution ; and your Lordftiips know.
the Matters contained in the Anfwer to be of
great Importance themfelves, and of near Conn
cernment to the Kingdom of Scotland ; yet at this
Time, upon what Confiderations we know not,
the Honourable Houfes have refolved upon an
Anfwer without acquainting us, and have voted
us Confenters to thofe Things wherein we have
no Power to agree ; and after we had, in our
Paper of the 1 2th of this Inftant, declared our
Diflent in fome Particulars, have refolved to ad*
here to their Anfwery which affirms us to have
given our Confent to thofe Particulars ; and
therefore that the fending an Anfwer to the King's
Letter is retarded, doth appear to proceed from
the. firft Step and Entrance into the I3ufmefs,
L 4 ' when

1 68 'The Parliamentary HISTORY

when that Anfwer was refolved upon without our
Advice; and not from us, as your Lordfhips
Paper feems to infmuate, who prefented our
Thoughts thereupon to your Lordfhips upon the
I2th of this Inftant; to which we had no Return
till the iyth, when your Lordfhips tendered to
us fome Reafons, whereunto we made Anfwer up-
on the i8th ; and having received your Lordfhips
Reply of the igth, Yefterday in the Afternoon,
we do this Morning return our Anfwer.
« We defire it may be ferioufly confidercd how
prejudicial it would prove to the Intereft of the
Kingdom of Scotland, That the Houfes of Par-
liament fhould refolve upon Matters of this Na-
ture and Confequence, without acquainting the
Parliament of Scotland, or their Commiffioners ;
and when fuch Refolutions are taken, to make
it an Argument for the Kingdom of Scotland to
give their Confent, becaufe the Houfes are engaged,
and cannot without Inconveniency depart from their
Refolutions -, as was Yefterday debated at the
Conference, and is again intimated unto us in
your Lordfhips Paper.

' Ours of the i8th did contain not only an An-
fwer to your Lordfhips Reafons why there fhould
be no Treaty upon any Proportions to be fent to
the King, but alfoto propound to your Lordfhips
what we conceive to be the State of the Quef-
tion, Whether it were not neceflary to fend the
Propofitions of Peace, agreed upon by the Parlia-
ments of both Kingdoms, for a pofitive Anfwer,
without any Treaty j and as we have conftantly
prefled this ever fince the 20th of June laft, fo,
upon this Occafion, we thought very feafonable
for us to move, That it might be exprefled, in
the Anfwer to the King's Letters, to be the Refo-
lutions of both Kingdoms to fend thefe Propofi-
tions for a pofitive Anfwer, without any Treaty.
* As to the State of the Queftion, as it was
propounded by your Lordfhips, we gave that
which we conceived to be a real Anfwer ; which

' was,

of E N G L A N D. 169

was, That zve bad not Power to fend any Propofi- An- 2' Car. I.
tions, materially different from thofe agreed upon
between the Kingdoms, without acquainting the Par- Dt.ce ^
liament of Scotland, and receiving their Directions
therein ; and, in Reafon, it cannot be expected
it fhould be in the Power of any Commiffioners
of Parliament, (as the Houfes of Parliament may
judge, whether they would be willing to grant
Power to their own Commiffioners, in the like
Exigence) to determine abfolutely that there
fhould be no Treaty upon any Proportions to be
fent to the King; and to limit thole that intrud-
ed them in Things offo great Confequence, con-
cerning the Manner, before they were acquainted
and had agreed upon the Matter of the Propofi-
tions, which, in its own Nature, ought to pre-
cede : And further, we freely and clearly told
your Lordfhips at the Conference, That we had
no Power to declare that there Jhould be no Treaty,
upon any Propositions materially different from thofe
agreed upon between the Kingdoms, or to confent that
there Jhould be any fuch Exprejfion in the Anfwer
to the King's Letter; and therefore we under-
ftand not upon whatGround your Lordfhips could
fay, in your Paper of the iQth, That you never
knew before that Morning, unlefs it be meant that
it was not, in Ter minis, exprefled in Writing ; and
your Lordfhips may remember this was the Rea-
fon why we defircd to amend fotne Expreflions in
our Paper, which your Lordfhips conceived to
be more clearly delivered at our Conference:
And when your Lordfhips had, upon the i8th at
Night, returned to us the Original Paper deli-
vered in by us that Afternoon, we did not ex-
pect that your Lordfhips, in yours of the igth,
would have made Anfwer to that Paper ; but
only to our other Paper, wherein we exprefled
ourfelves more fully to your Lordfhips Satisfac-
tion r And if your Lordfhips will be pleafed to
look again upon our Papers, there will be no-
thing found in them which may give any Ground

4 to

170 The Parliamentary H I s T o R v

An. 2_i Car. i. < to apprehend that your Lord (hips have made it

i ,,1^5' _j ' appear ''to us, that the fending Proportions, with-

December. ' out a Treaty, will be a better Means to continue

' the Union and good Underftanding between the

* Kingdoms, and preventing Inconveniences ; but,

* on the other Part, that we have no Warrant or
4 Direction from the Parliament of Scotland.

« The Difference, to us, feems to be very great
' betwixt the confenting to fend Propositions , al-
' ready agreed upon, for a pofitive Anfwer, without

* any Treaty, and the contenting to fend Propoft-
( tions, that are to be agreed upon, without any.
c Treaty, for the P eafons formerly exprelfed ; for

* that Proportions may much differ in their Nature,

* and for that the main and moft material Propo/i-
' tions, of thefe formerly agreed upon, have been
' already fully debated and treated upon at Ux->

* bridge, to which we conceive little or nothing

* could be added in Debate upon a new Treaty.

' And whereas your Lordfliips fay, That upon
' the firjl Refolution of the Houfes to fend their An-
' fwei*y we deftred a Conference about the fame, and did

* not declare any Want of Power, your Lordftiips

* may be pleafed to confider, we delivered in two
' Paper 3 ; in the one we made Anfwer to the
' Matter contained in the Anfwer of the Houfes to

* the King's Letter ; in the other we did take Ex-,

* ceptions to the Manner : That with the King's
' Letter, at the fame Time, there was delivered
' unto us an Anfwer of both Houfes, wherein
' we were named as Confenters to fome Par-
c ticulars to which we could not agree ; and

* upon this we defired to confer with your Lord-
' fhips, that we might the more fully exprefs our

* Senfe thereof by Conference, than we were wil-
' ling to do in Writing ; and in the fame Paper
4 we told your Lordfhips, That it could not have
c been expefted from us that we Jhould have agreed
' to theje Particulars, if we had been confulted
' therein as formerly upon the like Occafions : And
' when we were defirous to have fully expreffed

* ourfelves at that Conference, it was anfwered

of E N G L A N D. 171

by your Lordfhips, 'That you had no Power from -An. 41 Car. I.
the Houfes, to confer ivith us ; fo that we had not ^_ _^
the Opportunity, at that Time, to declare our December.
Want of Power.

' Thefe Reafons and Grounds, we truft, {hall
give Satisfaction concerning our Proceedings hi-
therto in this Buiinefs ; and in Anfwer to your
Lordfhips Defire, That -we would take into our
Confederation bow an Anfwer mav be fpeedily fent
unto his Majefty, we make this Overture, That
the Honourable Houfes would be pleafed to grant
Power to your Lordfhips, upon Conference with
us, to agree upon a Draught of an Anfwer to be
offered to their Confideration, that it may not
be further retarded.

By Command of the Commijffioners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

The ANSWER of the Englifh Commiffioners to the
foregoing PAPER given in by thofeof Scotland.

Dec. 20, 1645.

T N Anfwer to your Lordfhips Paper this Day
•* delivered, we do obferve, That as to our Rea-
fons why there fhould be no Treaty upon any
Proportions to be fcnt to his Majefty^ by Advice*
and Confent of both Kingdoms, and to the De-
fires of both Houfes that it may be fo expreffed
in their Letter to be fent to the King, your Lord-
fhips acknowledge, That you have purpofely avoid-
ed that Debate, being a Matter wherein you havt
no Direclions or Warrant from the Parliament of
Scotland j unto which, therefore, we fhall not
further reply.

* But finding, upon the Pcrufal of the faid
Paper, feveral Mifapprehenfions of the Proceed-
ings of the Houfes, and of what we offered to your
Lordfhips in our laft Paper, we are neceflitated to
make this further Reply for the clearing thereof. •

Your

¥be Parliamentary HISTORY

' Your Lordfhips conceive yourfelves included
by the Refutation* of both Houfes, and voted as
Djcember. " Confenters to thofe Things not offered to your
' Confideration ; whereas the Votes of the Houfes

* were but in order to your Lordfhips Concurrence,
4 which was the ufual Practice of both Houfes to

* the King, and of each Houfeto the other, with-

* out any fuch Interpretation.

* And whereas your Lordfhips defire us ferioufly
4 to confider how prejudicial it would prove to the
4 Intereft of the Kingdom of Scotland, that the Houfes

* of Parliament jhould refolve upon Matters of this

* Nature and Confequence, without acquainting the

* Parliament of Scotland or their CommiJJioners,
4 We defire it might be rightly underftood by your
4 Lordfhips, that, although the Houfes have fome

* Times conferred with your Lordfhips before
' their Refolutions, yet they always had, and have,

* the Liberty, in Bufmefs of this Nature, to make
6 their Refolutions within themfelves, in order to
' your Lordfhips Concurrence, before the fame
4 was imparted to your Lordfhips ; and fmce your
4 Lordfhips conceive this fo much to concern the

* Kingdom of Scotland, the Houfes have the more
4 Reafon, by their Practice, to aflert this their un-

* queftionable Right.

* And as to your Lordfhips Allegation, That
4 the Refolutions being taken already by us are urged
4 as an Argument for the Kingdom of Scotland to
4 give their Confent, becaufe the Houfes are engaged^
< and cannot, without Inconvenience, depart from their
4 Refolutions j the Reafons in our Paper and De-
4 bate, were prefled rather from the Nature and
4 Neceffity of the Thing refolved, than from the
4 Refolutions themfelves.

4 And we do not conceive why your Lordfhips
4 do ftate the Queftion upon the Matter of Propofi*
4 tions, whereof there is no Mention in the Letter,
1 and not on the Manner of fending them, which
4 is the Thing in Debate j nor why your Lord-
4 fhips do alledge feveral Reafons of fo great Dif-
4 ference betwixt fending the former Proportions

* for

0f ENGLAND. ,73

* fora pofitive Anfwer, without Treaty ', and not An. a i Car. I.

* any other ; when as no Proportions are defired to i645'

* be fent from both Kingdoms, but fuch only as,

* by the joint Advice and Confent of both Kingdoms
' fhall be agreed upon : And whereas your Lord-
' fhips do exprefs, That, upon the Conference the iSth
' In/tant, you did declare your not having Power to
' confent to have it exprejfed in the Letter, that there
' Jhouldbe no Treaty, or any Proportions materially

* different from thefe agreed upon by both Kingdoms \
' yet we had no Reafon to take Notice thereof till

* it was exprefled in your Paper the next Morn-
1 ing, yourfelves differing in Opinion at that Con-
' ference concerning your Power ; and although,

* at your Defire, we did give in that original Paper
1 mentioned by your Lordfhips, you may pleafe to

4 remember we took a Copy thereof, »nd agreed

* to give an Anfwer thereto ; and did acquaint
' your Lordfhips with our Refolutions to meet the

* next Morning for that Purpofe, which we did

* accordingly, and had prepared the greateft Part
' thereof, before we received your fecond Paper.

* And, the next Morning, the fame we thought
' fit to give as our Anfwer to both Papers.

' And your Lordfhips not having an Opportuni-

* ty declare your Want of Power, at that Time

* mentioned in your Paper, to concur with that
' Expreflion in the Letter, for fending of Propoft-

* tions without any Treaty, your Lordfhips know

5 you might then have declared the fame in Wri-

* ting ; we having always received and reported
4 your Papers to the Houfes ; and the Houfes have

* before defired your Concurrence therein ; and
' the Refolutions of both Houfes, to have no Treaty,

* were communicated to your Lprdfhips about five

* Months fince.

' And whereas your Lordfhips, in the Conclu-
' fion of your Paper, do defue, The Houfes would

* give us Power, upon Conferences with your Lord-

* Jhips, to agree upon a Draught of an Anfwer to
1 offtr to their Ccnfiderations that it may not be fur -

• tbtr

'74

An. ai Car. I.
1645.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

ther retarded^ your Lordfhips having declared
your Want of Power to confent to the Defires of
the Houfes in the Thing in Queftion, we cannot
conceive how the fame can expedite the fending
of an Anfwer to his Majefty's Letter ; which is fo
earneftly defired by both- Houfes.
' And that your Lordfhips may be fully fatisfied,
that nothing is now done or defired by the Houfes,
but what, in Cafes of like Exigence, your Lord-
fhips have formerly confented unto ; we fhall put
your Lordfhips in Mind, that both Houfes, with-
out appointing any preparatory Debates between
them and your Lordfhips, did refolve to limit the
Continuance of the Militia to a certain Time ;
though, by both Kingdoms, it was defired to be
left indefinite, and was fo prefented to his Ma-
jefty ; and herein, tho' your Lordfhips did declare
that your Inftructions did not warrant you to give
Confent to fo material an Alteration, without
firft acquainting the Parliament of Scotland, yet,
that the Treaty might not thereby be retarded,
your Lordfhips did join with the Engli/h Commif-
fioners to confent to a Time limited for the Mi-
litia ; your Lordfhips only put in a Paper for
your own Exoneration, expreffing therein the
Confidence you had that the Parliament of Scot-
land would confent thereunto, when they fhould
be acquainted therewith.'

GUALTER FROST.

The REPLY cftbe Scots Commijfioners to the foregoing
Anfwer from thofe o/'England.

Dec. 22, 1645.

ACCORDING to that which is expref-
l\ fed in the Clofe of our laft Paper, Decem-
ber 20, we wifh there had been a mutual Con-
ferrence between your Lordfhips and us for agree-
ing upon fuch a Draught of an Anfwer to hts
Majefty Letter, in all the Parts thereof, as might
have given Satisfaction to the Parliaments of both
Kingdoms, and not have any way retarded fo

* great

of ENGLAND. 175

great and urgent a Bufmefs ; but having received An> ai Car-
your Lordfhips Reply to that Paper, we have i * *5'
again reprefented our Senfe of the whole Matter, December,
and thereby endeavour to cure, or prevent, all
Mifapprehenfion on either Part.
* Your Lordfhips do obferve, 'That u.e have ac-
knowledged that we have no Direction or Warrant,
from the Parliament of Scotland ,. to agree to the
fending of any new Propofhions to the King without
a Treaty ; but your Lordfhips take no Notice
of what, withal, we did annex for your Lord-
fhips full Satisfaction, That, in reafon, it could
not be expected from uf, or, as we conceive, from
Commijjionen of any Parliament, to predetermine
and limit thofe that trujl them, fa far as that there
/hall be no Treaty upon fuch Propofitions as are
altogether unknown unto them, which is more fully
exprefled in our former Paper ; and we believe
your Lordfhips will acquiefce in this, as ground-
ed upon Reafon and the Rule of common
Equity, wherein both Parliaments are equally
concerned.

' Whereas your Lordfhips do anfwer, That the
Votes of the Houfes, including our Confent to that
which we knew not what it was, and had no
Power to agree unto, was but in order to our Con-
currence jwe defire your Lordfhips firft to remem-
ber, that it was not fo from the Beginning ; and
we know no Reafon why now more than for-
merly. Your Lordfhips know the Commiffioners
of the Honourable Houfes, when they were in
Scotland, and the Commiffioners from the Parlia-
ment of Scotland here in this Kingdom, in the
Matter of the Covenant, of. the Treaties between
the Kingdoms, the Propofitions of Peace, and
all the Interchange of Mejfages and Anfvuers to-
the King before the Treaty at Uxbridge, did firft
mutually debate Matters ; and then, with com-
mon Confent, refolve what was fitteft, without
any Argument from Pre-engagement on either
Side ; which we apprehend flill to be the beft
and moft effectual Way of preferving the Union

•of,

1 76 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. i. « of, and keeping a good Correfpondency between

^45- « the Kingdoms. Next we defire your Lordfhips

*T ^7 ' * to confider, that, after we had profefTed our Dif-

' fent, the Houfes of Parliament refolved to adhere

* unto their Anfwer ; which doth make it evident

* that the Vote could not be in order to our Aflent :
' And whereas your Lordlhips argue from the ufual

* Practice of the Houfes to the King, and of each

* Houfe to the other, we do not inquire into the

* Laws and Cuftoms of this Kingdom ; nor do we
' know, whether the Honourable Houfes do ufe

* any fuch Argument one to another, " That they
" are engaged before in their Refolution> and mult
<c adhere unto it j" but this we know, That King-

* doms have their own Conftitutions and Pra6tices,

* which ought not to be extended beyond their own

* Limits ; and that Treaties and Capitulations be-
' tween all Kingdoms, which are not fubordinate
' one to another, muft proceed from fuch general
' Laws and Cuftoms as may ftand with the Liberty

* of both : We are very far from denying any juft
' and unqueftionable Right of the Honourable

* Houfes of Parliament ; we know the Obligation

* which tieth both Kingdoms in this Kind j but

* we may be bold to fay, That as the Honourable
' Houfes of Parliament would not be willing that
' they, or their Commiflioners, fhould be included,

* in any Vote of the Parliament of Scotland^ in Mat-

* ters not before agreed upon, efpecially after their
' Difient ; fo will they never conceive it to be
' their unqueftionable Right to include the Com-
4 miffioners of the Parliament of Scotland in their

* Vote^ and to adhere unto it, after they had de-
4 dared their Diflent.

* We acknowledge your Lordfhips did frame
' the State of the Queftion, concerning the Man-

* ner of fending Proportions to his Majefty, and

* not concerning the Propo/itions to be fent j yet

* we hope your Lordfhips will acknowledge, in

* like Manner, that we were not hereby fo far li-

* mited, but that we had Liberty left us to ftate

* our neceflary Queftion alfo to be a Matter of

2 « Debate,

of E N G L A N D. 177

* Debate, fince the Manner offending did much An. « Car. I.
c depend upon the Matter of the Proportions to be > * *5' «
4 fent ; and if the Anfwer was drawn and voted, in December.

' order to cur Confent, there was Place left unto us

* to offer what we conceived fit to be inferted in
c the Anjwer; and, upon the Reafons in our for-
' mer Paper, manifesting the wide Difference be-
' twixt the Proportions agreed upon, and other new
' Proportions, the Refohitions about Treaty or no

* Treaty do fo much depend, that it feems to us to

* be prepofterous to condefcend upon the Manner,
« till the Matter be firft agreed upon.

' Your Lordfhips fay, That you had no Reafen
' to take Notice that, upon the Conference the 1 8tb
1 Injlant, we did declare our not having Power to

* confent to have it exprejfed in the Anfwer, that
' there Jhould be no Treaty on any Propositions ma-

* terially different from thofe agreed upon by both
' Kingdoms ; ourfelves differing in Opinion, at that
' Conference, concerning our Power : But your Lord-

* (hips do well remember that no Word pafTed.
' from any of us, that did fo much as imply that
' we had Power to fend any new Proportions to the
' King without a Treaty ; but that which directly

* tended to the contrary ; and that immediately

* after we had conferred together, we did unani-

* moufly declare our Minds to your Lordfbips,

* without the leaft Shadow of Difference j fo that

* your Lordfhips might, that Night, have refted
4 fatisfied, that we had no Power to confent to
' have it exprefs in the Anfwer to the King's Let-

* ter, That there fhould be no Treaty on any new
' Proportions.

' As to what your Lordfhips fay, You did agree

* to give an Anfwer to our firjl Paper of the i8/A,
' a<id did acquaint us with your Resolutions to meet
' the next Morning for that Purpofc : Your
' Lordfhips, after that you had delivered us that

* Anfwer, were pleafed, upon our Defireto exprefs

* our Mind more fully in another Paper, to return
< to us the original Paper firft offered, as if it had
4 never been given in bv us, or to have been taken

VOL. XIV. M * into

178 The Parliamentary HISTORY

into Confideration in your Lordfhips Anfwer ;
and therefore we had Reafon to expert no Anfwer
fhould have been returned to that Paper, but to
the other, which, with all Diligence, we deliver-
ed the next Morning.

' And whereas your Lordfhips fay, That if we had
not Opportunity to declare, at the Conference, con-
cerning our Pf^ant of Power, we might have declar-
ed the fame in Writing; the Houfes having before
dfjired our Concurrence in the Anfwer to the King's
Letter, and the Refolutions of both Houfes to have
no Treaty, being communicated to us about Jive
Months fence \ and further fay, That we having de-
clared our IV ant of Power to consent to the De feres
of the Houfes in the Thing in ghiejiion, your Lord'
Jhips cannot conceive how a Conference with us, to
agree upon a Draught of an Anfwer to offer to the
Confideration of the Houfes, can expedite the fend-
ing of an Anfwer to his Majejlfs Letter : We de-
fire it may be remembered, that as the Refolution
of the Houfes to have no Treaty was communi-
cated to us five Months fithence, fo did we re-
turn the fame Anfwer unto your Lordfhips at that
Time which we do now ; which was alfo really
contained in our two Papers delivered in upon
the 1 8th and igth Inftant, when we defircd a
Conference of your Lordfbips, for whh h you did
declare you had no Power ; and for which, if
your Lordmips had yet Power, we conceive,
upon former Experience of overcoming greater
Difficulties, fuch an Anfwer to his Majefty's
Letter might be agreed upon as might fatisfy both
Parliaments, and fo the fending of an Anfwer
might have been expedited ; unlefs your Lord-
fhips think that the Anfwer drawn by 'the Houfes,
without our Knowledge or Confent, can fuffer no
Alteration ; which we believe is not your Lord-
fhips Opinion, iince ft was refolved upon by the
Houfes, as your Lordfhips fay, with a Reference
to our Confent.

' Whereas your Lordfhips fay, That we may be
* fatty fati fad y that nothing is now dont or defer ed

< by

of E N G L A N D. 179

* by the Houfes, but what, in Cafes of the like Exi- An. 21 Car. I.

* gence, we have formerly confented unto ; and do put

* us in Mind, that the Houfes of Parliament, with-

* out appointing any preparatory Debates between
6 them and us, did refolve to limit the Continuance
' of the Militia, contrary to that which was agreed
c upon by both Kingdoms ; your Lordfhips may be
' pleafed to remember, that, (befides that the
' Com.niffioners of Scotland were then at Uxbridge,
' and not at London or Wejlminfter} in the mutual
' Debates of the Commiffioners of both King-
4 doms, it was conceived to be reafonable, that the
' Confenting to a Limitation of Time, fo earneftly
' prefTed by the King, if it could be obtained, would

* be a Manifeftation of their Deflres of Peace ; and
c thereafter the Committees of both Houfes, having
' met apart, thought fit to write to the Houfes
' for their Refolution, but firft of all to acquaint
' the Commiflioners of Scotland therewith, which
' was done accordingly : This we take for a pre-
' paratory Debate. And whereas your Lordfhips

* fay, That the Commijjisners of Scotland did join

* with the Committee of both Houfes, although they had

* no Warrant from their Inftruilions fo to do ; only
' putting in a Paper for their Exoneration, exprejjing
' their Confidence that the Parliament of Scotland
' would confent thereunto ; and that therefore we may
' clo the like at this Time, in the like Exigence;
' we defire your Lordfhips^ for your Satisfaction,
( to confider that the one Cafe is much different
4 from the other ; for although the Commiffioners
' of Scotland had no particular Inftru&ions for limit-
' ing the Time of the Militia, yet they had good
c Grounds to make them confident that the Parlia-
' ment of Scotland would be of the fame Mind,
c as is intimated in their Paper mentioned by your
' Lordfhips : But concerning the Matter now in
' Debate, we have acquainted the Eltates of Scot-

* land with the Votes of bjth Houfes of the i ith of
e Auguft, and with our Anfvjer of the I4thj and
' at divers Times, with fuch Earneftnefs as b^'-

M 2 fcemed

180 'The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. a! Car. I. e feemed us, defired their fpeedy Rcfolutions and

t J 45' , * particular Directions, but they have not judged

December. ' ^ convenient to grant us any further Power j ex-

' peeling, no doubt, that the Houfcs of Parliament

* would either|refolve to fend to the King the Pro-

* pofetiom formerly agreed upon ; or, if they did

* intend any material Alterations of, or Additions

* unto, the former Proportions, they would have
' acquainted them therewith before this Time ; it
' being now about five Months fithence the Hcufes
' of Parliament did refolve to fend Proportions

* of Peace to his Majefty ; and if thefe Alterations

* or Additions had been fent in Time to the King-

* dom of Scotland, we might, by this Time, have
' been furniflied with their Inftrudions ; and known

* their Will, both concerning the Matter of thofe
' Propofetionsy and the Manner of fending them,
' that we might have given perfect Satisfaction to
e the Honourable Houfes for expediting that which
' is fo much defired by us all :

' \Ve do therefore renew our Defire, concerning
' our Overture in the End of our laft Papery That

* the Honourable Houfes may grant Power to your
' Lordmips, upon mutual Conference, to agree

* upon a Draught of art Anfwer to his Majefty's
' Letter, to be offered to their Confideration,
< whereby this tedious Debate may be put to an

* End ; and becaufe the Alterations and Additions,
6 fo often mentioned, after five Months, are not
' yet refolved upon, and a long Time muft be

* (pent before they be agreed upon by both King-

* doms j we move again, That the Propojitions^ al-
' ready prepared by Confent of both Kingdoms,
1 may be fent for his Majefty's pofitive Anfwer ;

, * becaufe more may be loft, by lofing the prefent

' Seafon and Opportunity, than can be gained by
r new Proportions. If his Majcfty's Intentions,

4 when he is now brought lower than at any Time

' before, be really for Peace, and anfwerable to

* his Profeflion, the not hearkening to his Defires
' may force him to fuch defpcrate Courfes, and co
4 make fuch unnatural Offers to foreign Princes

c and

of E N G L A N D. 181

and States, as may be the Beginning of a new An. 21 Car. I.
Kind of War, and the Caufe of the Continuance v
and Increafe of the fad Condition of thefe three
Kingdoms j and if the King's importunate Soli-
citations, by his Letter for Accommodation,
and the Prince's offering his Mediation, to men-
tion no more, be but Pretences ; yet they are fo
plaufible in the Eyes of the World, (unlefs they
be difcovered by trying the Truth, in fending of
Proportions, and talcing fome fpeedy Courfe for
Peace) that they may be a Caufe of multiplying
Enemies againft us, and of much Mifery to thefe
Kingdoms. Whatfoever be the Event, which is
in the Hand of God, it is our Duty, and will be
our Comfort, that we embrace all Occafions of
Pacification.'

By Command of the CommiJJioners for the Parl'ia*
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

This long Report being over, the Lords ordered
' that the feveral Papers^ therein contained, (hould
4 be taken into Confederation the next Morning.

Dec. 23. A Meflage was brought up from the
Houfe of Commoms, by Sir Robert Harley and
other.., to communicate to their Lordfliips divers
Letter s^ importing the good Succefs of fome of the
Parliament's Forces in the taking of the City of
Hereford i which were read as follow :

For the Right Honourable the COMMITTEE of
LORDS and COMMONS for the Safety of both
Kingdoms,

May it pleafe your Lordfliips,

ACcording unto your Commands, I dreiv forth near Letter- cr
•" 900 Foot and my Troop of Hsrfe, and upon in? the tr
Advice from the Governor of Gloucefler, I marched116
unto him; but finding the Way which was intended
altogether frujlratedy and the Governor of Gloucef-
er not very well, I went with Sir John Bridges
M 3 near

The Parliamentary HISTORY

near to Hereford ; and fent thither for the two Gen-
tlemen whom Sir John, bad before treated withal
December obout the Bufmefs, of whom I fatisfied myfelf of
the Enemy s Security and the Negligence of their
Guards : 'This caufed me to think of feme other
Way, andy amongjl others, this was moft pre-
valent with me, which, by God's BleJJing, took Ejf'ett.
The IVay was this j to march in one Day and Night
from Gloucefter to Hereford ; tuhicb done, I had
provided fix Men, in Form of Labourers, and one
with them to be a Conftable, with a Warrant to
bring thefe Men to work in the Town ; to them I
gave a good Sum of Money in Hand, and promifed
them a large Reward. Thefe Men I intended to
lodge, in the Dark of the Night, near the Gate,
with 150 Firelocks fa near them as the Ground would
admit out of Sight. I intended to draw a Body to
fecond them and enter with them, and fo to furprize
the Town upon the letting down the Bridge in the
Morning. Then I went back to Gloucefter to in-
form Colonel Morgan of this, dejiring him to join with

me to put it to Trial; which he condefcended unto, and

Purpofe all Mor
felljhort; therefore, to delude the Enemy, retreated

we marched to that Purpofe all Monday Night but

back again within nine Miles 0/~ Gloucefter.

The next Day at Night we returned again, and
with careful Spies and Scouts, kept back Intelligence
from them, fo that they never dif covered us; but I laid
my Countrymen and Firelocks within three Quarters
of a Mufket Shot, at a Place which I had inquired
out for the Purpofe ; which Party I left to be manag-
ed by my Lieutenant-Colonel, who behaved him-
filf very gallantly ; and the main Body of Foot I led
myjclf, Col. Morgan being with the Body of Horft
which he undertook j and this Morning, upon the
letting down of the Bridge, the Countrymen went
with their Pick- Axes and Spades to the Bridge ; the
Guards beginning to examine them, they killed three
of the Guards, and kept the rejl in play until the
Firelocks came up to them, who made it good until
the Body came up ; and it pleafed God the Defign,

^ENGLAND. 183

fa took, that we entered the Town with fmall Loft ; An. 21 Car. I.
in which we took eleven Pieces of Ordnance, much 1°45*
Arms, and fever al Prifoners of Dijlinftlon ; but there Decei^ber.
are many others in Town, which I believe one Day
more will difcover.

The Mercy is wonderful ; I defire the Lord may
have the Honour of it, for it is his own Work. I
am deeply engaged by Monies laid out in this Bufinefs,
and by Promife with Colonel Morgan ; therefore I
humbly defire your Honours to give Order for the Pay-
ment of the fame. As for myfelf, I Jhall endeavour to
fettle this Place, and wait your further Orders for the
Subfj/lance of my Regiment, which is in great Necef-
Jity, or what other Commands you Jhall be plea fed to Jig-
nify unto your Honours

Moft faithful Servant,

Hereford, Dec. 18,

«4S- JOHN BIRCH.

I have herewith fint my Servant to wait upon
your Honours, by whom I intreat to receive your
Commands.

For the Right Honourable the COMMITTEE of
LORDS and COMMONS for the Safety of both
Kingdoms,

May it pleafe your Lordfhips,

According to your Commands I marched with a
•*•*• Party, as in a former Letter, fignife I by Co-
lonel Morgan and myfelf, we made bold to inform you :
Since which Time it hath pleafed God to Jhew
his Power in our Weaknefs, by giving us this City,
into which we forced our Entry this Morning, as by
the Letter figned by Colonel Morgan and myjelf more
particularly appears. The Refolution of the Soldiers
carried them on beyond Imagination. I Jhall endea-
vour to fet Things in Order here, according to that
Command your Lord/hips have been pleafed to give
me. The Place is very evil offered \ I have hert
M 4 9°°

Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. gro Foot, but they will be too fmall a lumber.

t j intend to add to them, if your Honours pleafe, and

December. make them up I2OO, which will be few enough for
. this ill-affefted Place. When I marched hither ; / left
two Companies at Bath, which being it is to bejlighted9
I Jhall humbly defer e an Order for the drawing of thofe
two Companies to this Place, which would be a good
Addition. I Jhould have waited upon your Honours my-
felf, but I dare not be abfent, though my Extremities be
great for NcceJJaries for my poor Soldiers. I Jhall
humbly intreat you to fegnify your further Commands
in that or any other Thing, which Jhall be carefully
observed by

Your Honours real Servant,

Hereford, Dec. 18,

1645- JOHN BIRCH.

For the Right Honourable the COMMITTEE of
both Kingdoms,

Hafte, Hafte, Poft Hafte.

May it pleafe your Lordfhips,

gave you an Account in our la/J, that ive
found the City of Hereford, by our Intelli*
gence, to be fo Jlrong both in itfelf and the Refolu~
tion of its Defenders, that much Hazard would be
in the gaining of it. Notwithflanding, having a
Party of about 20OO Horfe and Foot betwixt us, viz.
of Gloucester Forces 1050, and of Bath Forces 950,
we refolvsd to make a Trial of falling upon the Place ;
unto which Endeavour the Lord was pleajed fo to add
bis BleJJing, that Yejlerday Morning, about Break
of Day, we forced our Entrance ; God putting fuch a
a Spirit into the Soldiers as was beyond Exprejfion.
Ou-' Engagements to them were very large, the JDe-
fign being very dcfpe? ate ; and alfo to fome other
Gentlemen, who were very helpful and behaved them-
fclves very gallantly in the falling on ; whtch En-
gagements that we may be able, to discharge, we hum-
bly defer e your Lord/trips to give Order for that Sum

which

of E N G L A N D. 18$

which you were pleafed to promife for that Service. An. zi Car. I.
After ive bad marched one Night in the Snow up to the l645-
Mid-Leg^ almojl twenty Miles inand out, that the Enemy Dcee "7
might not be jealous of us we marched the fame March
upon Monday Night, though with fuch Hardjhip that
three of our Men died in tlie Snow ; and we retreated,
upon Tuefday, almojl to Gloucefter. They then be-
lieving we had been clear gone, were more jecure, and
we fell on unexpected. Our Lofs was not confiderabley
God be blejfid, whcfe Gcodnefe was here plainly
feen. To him be the Glory. The Enemy fought it out
in the Streets, where divers were Jlain, and the reft
taken Pi ifoners. We are not able, at prefent, to par-
ticularize them, only thofe, whofe Names we can at this
Injlant be informed of, we have here inferted. The
Townfmen have fuffered by the Soldiers, by reafon we
entered it by Force, and that the Enemy Jhot out at the
Windows and in the Streets ; at which the Soldiers were
fo enraged, that we could not prevent them from plun-
dering, which we endeavoured much to have done. We
Jhall be always ready to approve ourfelves

Your Honours

Moft faithful Servants,
Hereford, Dec. lo,

'645- THCX MORGAN.

JOHN BIRCH.

P. S. The following is a Lift of the PRISONERS
token :

Lord Brudenell, the Bijhop of Hereford ; Sir
Thomas Lunsford, Sir Walter Blunt, Sir Henry
Spiller, Sir Henry Bedingfield, Sir Marmaduke
Lloyd, Sir George Vaughan, Sir Giles Mom-
pefibn, Sir George Stepney, Sir Francis Howard,
Sir Francis Lloyd, Sir Richard Baflett, Sir Philip
Jones, Sir Edward Morgan, Sir Nicholas Throck-
morton ; Judge Jenkins j Lieutenant-Colonels Price,
Lewis, Jeffreys and Jones 3 CsmmiJJary Lanwirh ;

Major

., 'The' Parliamentary H i s T o R Y

21 Car. I. Major Price ; Captains Ballard, Hill, and Corn-

l64-S- wallis ; Lieutenants Gibbs #W D'Oyley ; Cornets

December. Brett tfW Swainton ; Secretary Barnes j jWr. Sea-

burne, Mr. Windfor, Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Tur-

beville, Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Powel, Mr. Harring-

ton ; two Surgeons, two Priejis, and many others of

.

Sir Robert Harley farther informed the Lords,
That the Commons defired their Concurrence in
appointing a Thankfgiving to Almighty God, the
next Sabbath-Day, in London and within the Line
of Communication, for the taking of Hereford;
and alfo that Colonel Birch might be Governor of
that City : To both thefe the Lords agreed accord-
ingly.

».-.•».•», .•,. V\» ' - ', . • • • !.. .' ') , , -

Dec. 2$. Being ChriJlmas-Day, both Houfes fat
as ufual, to do Bufmefs, but nothing material hap-
pened in either. Mr. Whitlocke obfcrvcs That,
not with ftanding the Ordinance made and publifhed
for aboliftiing this Feftival, yet generally, in Lon-
don, the Shops were fhut up and the Day obferved.

Dec. 26. The Houfe of Commons fent up an
Jnfwer to the King's Letters ; which the Lords
read, approved of, and ordered to be communicat-
ed to the Scots Commiffioners ; which they, after
fome Deliberation, having confented to, it was
ordered to be fent away that Afternoon, by
Sir Peter Killegrew.

May it pleafe your Majefty,

TheParliamem's rt->H E Lords and Commons aj/'embled in the Parlla-

Kin^M^ages ment °f England, at Weftminfter, have received

of December $thyour Letters of the $th and \$th of this Infant De-

and i5th ibr cember ; and having, together ivitb the CommiJJioners

of the Parliament of Scotland, taken the fame into their

Jerious Confederation, do humbly return this Anfwer.

They have, in all their Actions, manifested to your
Majejly and tit World, their fencer e and earnejl

Deferes

of ENGLAND. X87

Defer es that a fafe and well-grounded Peace might Le An. 2? Car. T.
fettled in your three Kingdoms ; and for the obtaining l64S-
fo great a Blejfeng,/hall ever pray to God andufe their ^ v!
Titmojt Endeavours : And befeech your Majejly to be-
lieve^ that their not fending a more fpeedy Anfwer hath
not proceeded from any Intention to retard the Means
of putting an End to thefe prefent Calamities by a hap-
py Peace ; but hath been occafeonedby the Confederations
and Debates necejfary tn a Bufencfs offo great Import-
ance', wherein both Kingdoms are fo much concerned.

As to your Majejly s Deftre of a Safe-Condufl for , -i
the coming hither of the Duke ^ Richmond, the Earl
of Southampton, John Afhburnham, and Jeffrey
Palmer, Efqrs. with Propofitions to be the Foundation
of an happy and well-grounded Peace ; they finding that
former Treaties have been made Ufe of for other Ends,
under Pretence of Peace, and have proved dilatory
and unsuccessful-) cannot give Way to a Safe-Condu&
according to your Majt/fy's Dejlre : But both Houfes of
the Parliament of England having now under their
Confederation Propofitions and Bills for the fettling of
a fafe and well-grounded Peace, which are fpeedily to
be communicated to the CommiJJloners of the Kingdom of
Scotland, do refohe, after mutual Agreement of
both Kingdoms , to prefent them with all Speed to your

GREY of Warke,
Speaker of the Houfe of Peers

Weflminfter, Dec. 3.6, pro

WILLIAM LENTHALL,

Speaker of the Houfe of Com-
mons.

But, before this Anfwer was received by the
King, another MeJJage came from his Majefty
ujhered in to the Houfe of Lords, in the ufual
Manner ; and was in thefe Words :

For

¥bt Parliamentary HISTORY

a Car. I.

1645. For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS pro
*~ v/ ' Tempore, to be communicated to the two Houfes
of Parliament at Weftimnfert and the Commif-
fioners of the Parliament of Scotland.

CHARLES R.
Another M,-fTage ^ jQtwithflandin? the ftranve and unexpected De-

of the z6th,fora l\ . > i • i t ± 1 * J I .r

Per fonal Treaty ~XJ \'w'}lc'} can be precedent ca by no jormer

fenr before his Times) to his Majeflys two former MefTages, his
Maiefty'sReceipt Majefy will lay afide all Expojlulations, as rather
Anfwcr. ferving to lofe Time than to contribute any Remedy to

the Evils which, for the prefent, do afflitt this di/f raff-
ed Kingdom : Therefore, without further Preamble, his
Majejly thinks it mojl necej/ary to fend thefe Propofi-
tions this Way^ which he intended to do by the Per-
fons mentioned in his former Meflages ; though he well
knows the great Difadvantage which Overtures of this
Kind have, by the Want of being accompanied by well"
in fir -lifted MeJJengers.

His Majejly conceiving that the former Treaties
have hitherto proved ineffectual, chiejly for Want of
Power in thofe Perfons that treated, as likcwife becaufe
thofe from whom their Power vuas derived (not pojfibly
having the particular Informations of every feveral
Debate) could not give fo clear a Judgment as was re-
quijite to fo important a Bufmefs : If therefore his Afa-
jejiy may have the Engagement of the two Houfes at
Weftminfter, the Commissioners of the Parliament of
Scotland, the Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council, and,
Militia of London ; of the Chief Commanders in Sir
Thomas Fairfax'* Army, as alfo of thofe in the Scots
Army, for his MajeJIy's free and fafe Coming to,
and Abode in, London or Weftminfter, (with fucb
of his Servants now attending him, and their Fol-
hivers, not exceeding in all the Number of 300)
for the Space of 40 Days j and, after the faid
Time, for his free and fafe Repair to any of his
Garrifons of Oxford, Worcefter, or Newark,
(which his Majejly Jhall nominate at any Time before

his

^ENGLAND. 189

bis going from London or Weftminfter) his Majejly An. 21 Car. I;

propounds to have a Peribnal Treaty with the two l645-

Houfes of Parliament at Weftminfter, and the Com- ^ D £Z~"

mijjioners of the Parliament of Scotland, upon all

Matters ^vhich may conduce to the rejloring of Peace

and Happinefs to thefe miferablc diftrafted Kingdoms ;

and to begin ivitk the three Heads which were treated

on at Uxbridge. And for the better clearing of his

Majejly's earnejl and fin cere Intentions of putting an

End to thefe unnatural Diftraftionsy (knowing that

Point of Security may prove the greatell Obftacle to this

mojl bleffcd Work) his Majejly therefore declares, That

he is willing to commit the great Trujt of the Militia

of this Kingdom, for fuch Time and with fuch Powers

as are expreffed in the Paper delivered by his Majejly's

Commiffioners at Uxbridge, the 6th of February laft^

to thefe Perfons following, viz. the Lord Privy-Seal^

Duke of Richmond, Marquis of Hertford, Marquis

of Dorchefter, Earl of Dorfet, Lor d-Chainber lain,

Earl of Northumberland, EartofEttex, Earl of

Southampton, Earl of Pembroke, £tfr/0/"Sali{bury,

Earl of Manchefter, Earl of Warwick, Earl of

Denbigh, Earl of Chichefter, Lord Say, Lord

Seymour, Lord Lucas, Lord Lexington, Mr, Den-

7,il Holies, Mr. Pierpoint, Mr. Henry Bellafis,

Mr. Richard Spencer, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Mr.

John Afhburnham, Sir Gervafe Clifton, Sir Henry

Vane, jun. Mr. Robert Wallop, Mr. Thomas

Chicheley, Mr. Oliver Cromwell, and Mr. Philip

Skippon ; fuPP°f*ng that thefe are Per fans againjl

whom there can be no jujl Exception. But if this

doth not fatisfy, then his Majejly offers to name the one

Half, and leave the Election of the other to the two

Houfes of Parliament at Weftminfter, with the

Powers an4 Limitations before-mentioned.

Thus his Majejly culls God and the Jf/rorld to be
Witnefi of his Jincere Intentions and real Endeavours
fer the compofmg and fettling of thefe miferable Dijlr ac-
tions ; which he doubts not but, by the BleJJing
of God) will foon be put to an happy Conclufion, if
that his Majejly's Offer be accepted j otberwife, he

leaves

7$? Parliamentary HISTORY

leaves all the World to judge who are the Coniinuers
of til 3 unnatural War. And therefore he once more
conjures you, by all the Bonds of Duty you owe to
God and your King, to fo great a CompaJJion on the
bleeding and miferable EJlate of your Country, that you

join your mojl ferious and hearty Endeavours with his
Majejly, to put an happy and fpeedy End to thefe pre-

fent Miferies.

Given at the Court at Oxford, the 26th of
December 1645.

Dec. 30. Sir Peter Killegrew, the Meflenger fent
with the Parliament's Letter to the King, returned
with this Anfwer.

For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS pro
Tempore, to be communicated to the two Houfes
of Parliament at Wejiminjler, and the Commif-
fioners of the Parliament of Scotland.

CHARLES R.

Alto***. AL^OIJGH '*'??efrage, fent by Sir Peter
die King, De- ' Isullegrew, may jujtly require an expojiuLatory
ber 29th,Joc- Anfwer, yet his Majejly lays that afide, as not fo pro-
" $er for his prefent Endeavours ; having all the
World to judge, whether his Propofition for a Per-
fonal Treaty, or the f.at Denial of a Safe-Conducl
for Perfons to begin a Treaty, be greater Signs of a
real Intention to Peace ; and Jhall now only injijl
upon his former Meflage of the 2.6th of this Decem-
ber, That, upon his Repair to Weftminfter, he
doubts not but fo to join his Endeavours with his two
Houfes of Parliament^ as to give jujl Satisfaction
not only concerning the Buftnefs ^Ireland, but alfo
for the fettling of a Way for the Payment of
the Public Debts, as well to the Scots and the City
of London, as others. And as already he hath
Jhewn a fair Way for the fettling of the Militia,
fo he Jl)all carefully endeavour ^ in all other Particu~
larSy that none Jhoil have Caufe to complain for
want of Security, whereby jjift Jealoufies may arife
to hinder the Continuance of the dejired Peace. And

(trtainb

of E N G L A N D. ,9I

certainly this Proportion of a Perfonal Treaty could An. u Car. I.
never have entered into his Majefly's Thoughts, if he l645-
had not refolved to make apparent to all the World, ^~~^~~~~J
That the Public Good and Peace of this Kingdom is
far dearer to him than the Refpefl of any particular
Inter eji : Wherefore none can oppofe this Motion,
without a manifefl Demonftration, That he particular-
ly envies his Majejly Jhould be the chief Author in fo
bleffed a Work, befedes the declaring himfelf the dire ft
Oppofer of the happy Peace ofthefe Nations.

To conclude : Whofoever will not be ajhamed that
his fair and fpecious Protestations Jhould be brought
to a true and public Teji, and thofe who have a real
Senfe and do truly commiferate the Mfiries of their
bid-ding Country, let them fpeedily and chearfully em-
brace his Maje/Jy's Propofitionyir his Perfonal Trea-
ty, at Weflminftej ; which, by the Blejffing of Gody
will undoubtedly, to thefe now di/iracJed Kingdoms, re-
Jlore the Happinefs of a long-wijhed-for and lajiing
'Peace.

Given at the Court at Oxford, the 2Qth Day of
December, 1645.

The next Day, the Houfe of Commons fent a
Meflage to the Lords, importing, That upon read-
ing of the King's Letters of the 26th and 2gth of
December, they do find a greater Neceffity to con-
tinue in their former Refolution, ' That the Militia RefbJutions of
of this Kingdom (hall be put in the Power of both both ^oufcs
Houfes of Parliament, and not otherwife, according l
to the Proportion concerning the Militia already
fent from their Houfe to the Lords ; and that the
Lords Concurrence be dcfired, both in the faid Pro-
pofition and in the Vote ; and that the Lords be de-
fired, if they (hall agree in the faid Propofetion and
in this Vote, that they will concur with this Houfe,
That the faid Proportion concerning the Militia
^nd this Vote may, by the Members of both Houfes
that are of the Committee of both Kingdoms, be
communicated to the Scots Commiflioners, and
iheir Concurrence defired to both.'

To all which the Lords agreed.

2 The

192 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. The King's Affairs now growing defperate, on

|64S> ,all Sides, many Gentlemen of Eftates, who had

December fcrved ms Majefty in his Armies, fought to make

the beft of a bad Bargain, and fave fome Part, by

*• Committee compounding for the whole. A Committee for

"pointed, by fuch Ufes was fettled, by Parliament, at Gold/mitl? s-

Parliament, to ffay and Tjme was flowed to the 25th of this
ci-mponnd with •»»,,-,,.,, , J

theRoyaiifts forMonth, for thofe who thought proper to come in

their fequeftered to compound. Soldiers of Fortune, as they were

Eftates. called, or thofe who had no Eftates, were fuffered

to tranfport themfelves to any foreign Country,

never more to return to their own, without Leave

from the Parliament : But, if they returned again,

and took up Arms againft the Parliament, then they

were neither to have a Pardon nor Quarter.

'January. Both Houfes having been long em-r

ployed in fettling Church-Government, according

to the Prefbyterian Model, on the third of this

Month the Commons fent up a Meflage by Sir

A Faft appointed Rsbert Hurley^ to defire the Lords Concurrence,

for God's Affift-« That, to the End they all might have God's Af-

Se"ent ofeSet" fiftance>[in the finiming and fettling this great Work
church-Govern- of Church-Government, a Day might be appoint-
ment. ed and fet apart for a Day of Humiliation for both

Houfes of Parliament and the Aflembly of Di-
vines, to feek God for his Direction therein ; the
Time and Place they left to their Lordfhips. —
The Lords agreed to this, and appointed Wednesday
the i5th Inftant at St. Martin's in the Fields.

Jan. 3. The Form of a Letter, drawn up by the
Committee of both Kingdoms, to be fent to the
King as an Anjkuer to his two laft, was this Day
read to the Lords, and ordered to be communicated
firft to the Scots Commifiioners, and then fent away

TrumPeter'

,

to the King's « TTT JT, yOur humble and loyal Subjects of
SSzoi both Kingdoms, have received you Let-

w December. c ten of the 26th and 2gth of December laft, unto

' which

of E N 0 L A N D.

c Which we humbly return this Anfiver^ That there An.

* hath been no Delay on our Parts but what hath

* been neceflary in a Bufinefs of fo great Confe- January.

* quence, as is expreffed in our former Letter to

* your Majefty.

* Concerning the Perfonal Treaty defired by your

* Majefty ; there having been fo much innocent

* Blood of your good Subjects flied in this War by

* your Majefty's Commands and Commiffions,

* Irijb Rebels brought over into both Kingdoms,

* and Endeavours to bring over more into both of

* them, as alfo Forces from fbreign Parts ; your
' Majefty being in Arms in thefe Parts, and the

* Prince at the Head of an Army in the Weft ; di-

* vers Towns made Garrifons and kept in Hoftili-

* ty againft the Parliament of England ; there be-

* ing alfo Forces in Scotland againft that Parliament

* and Kingdom by your Majefty's Commifiion ;

* the War in Ireland fomented and prolonged by

* your Majefty, whereby the three Kingdoms are

* brought hear to utter Ruin and Deftruclion ; we

* conceive that, until Satisfaction and Security be

* firft given to both your Kingdoms, your Majefty's
6 coming hither cannot be convenient, nor by us

* aftented to : neither can we apprehend it a

* Means conducing to Peace, that your Majefty

* fhould come to your Parliament for a few Days,

* with any Thoughts of leaving it, efpecially with
' Intentions of returning to Hoftility againft it.

* And we do obferve, that your Majefty defires

* a Safe-Conduct, not only from your Parliament,

* but from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Common
' Council* and Militia of the City of London, the

* Chief Commanders of Sir 'Thomas Fairfax's Af-
' my, and thofe of the Scots Army } which is

* againft the Privileges and Honour of your Parlia-
c ment, thofe being joined with them who are fub-
' ject and fubordinate to their Authority.

' As to that which your Majefty, againft the

* Freedom of Parliament, enforces in both your

* Letters, with many earneft Expreffions, as if in
VOL. XIV. N • no

An. z i Car.

^64L_,

January.

The Scots Com

*$* Parliamentary Jt I s to R Y

no other Way than that propounded by your
Majefty, the Peace of your Kingdoms could be
eftablifhed, your Majefty may pleafe to remem-
ber, that, in our laft Letter, we did declare that
Prtyofttiom from both Kingdoms were fpeedily
to be fent unto your Majefty ; which being aflent-
ed unto by your Majefty, will be the only Means
whereby you can give Satisfaction and Security
to your Kingdoms, will aflure a firm Union be-
tween the two Kingdoms (as much deftred by
each for other as for themfelves) fettle Religion,
and fecure the Peace of the Kingdom of Scotland)
whereof neither is fo much as mentioned in your
Majefty's Letter. And in proceeding according
to thefe juft and neceflary Grounds, to the put-
ting an Knd to the bleeding Calamities of thefe
Nations, your Majefty may have the Glory to
be a principal Inftrument in fo happy a Work ;
and we, however fnifmterpreted, ihall approve
eurfelves to God and the World to be real and
Fincere in feeking a fafe and well-grounded
Peace.'

"Jan. 5. The foregoing Letter having been com-
fnunicated to the Scots Commiffioners for their
Confent to it, they, this Day, returned a Paper to
the Lords, which contained their Thoughts on the
fgid Letter^ which was read in h<sc Verba.

Dec. 5, 1645.

* * Ccording to an Order of both Houfes your
' *\ Lordfhips did, upon Saturday at Night,

* communicate unto us their Anfwer to the King?s

* Letter, in Reference to our Concurrence ; and,

* upon Perufal thereof^ we have thought nt to de-
' fire it may be confidered, whether fo full and ex-
' prefs charging of his Majefty, as is contained in

* the fecond Paragraph, doth conduce to tne intend-
' ed Pacification ; and whether it may not, contrary

* .to the Intentions of both Kingdoms, probably
' be interpreted to a further End than to decline a

* PerJ'onal Treaty »

* Some

^/ENGLAND. i95

* Some Expreflions, as we conceive, may, upon An. »i Car. I.
a fecond Confideration, be made more diftindl
and clear, wherein we {hall be very ready to con-
cur with your Lordfliips : But one Thing there
is very material to us, which we deiire to have
altered in the fourth Paragraph, Tour Majejly may
fteafe to remember thai, in our loft Letter we did
delare that Propofitions for both Kingdoms were
fpeedily to be fent to your Majejly which being
ajj'ented to by your Majejly, will be the only Means
whereby you can give Satisfafiion and Security
unto your Kingdoms : Becaufe thefe Words, as they
now ftand, do imply not only that the Parliaments
of the two Kingdoms will receive no Propofitions
from his Majefty to be the Foundation of a fafe
arid well-grounded Peace ; but alfo, that there
can be no Satisfaction or Security, unlefs his Ma-
jefty aflent unto every Particular, of the fmalleft
Importance, contained in the Propofitions to be
fent from both Kingdoms ; and do further imply
that there (hall be no Treaty upon thofe Propoji-
tisns ; which Things we have no Power to de-
clare, as is well known to the Honourable Houfes.*

By Command of the CommiJJioners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

The fame Day the Speaker of theHoufe of Lords
acquainted them with a Letter he had received
from the Earl of Rutland and the Lord Willoughl^
two of the Commiflioners appointed to refidc with
the Army before Newark , dated at Nottingham^
"January 2, 1645, which was read as follows :

My Lord,

CT*H E next Nigfjt after we came to Grsmtham Lette.-s, &c.from
•* the Carriages with the Cloatbs and Money came ^£'°!™iI7l»
to us, iv: 'th a Convoy of 300 Scots horfe and Dra~ Am,y beton
goons. JFe have received what was appointed fir Newark.
us ; and the fmne Night gave Orders for the Chuthf
tmd 15,000 1. in Money tygo to Nottingham the next
N 2 Day>

196 ¥ht Parliamentary ft i s T a R V

An. ^l Car. I. Day ; and feat to the Committee there to provide Wag"

t l645' i gons to carry them to the Scots Quarters, having wrote

January. at fke fame Time to Lieutenant-General David Leftey.

Accordingly the Money and Cloaths were received, as by

an Acquittance returned to Goldfmith's-Hall will

We have ufed our bejl Endeav'oilrs towards the re-
ducing of Newark and Belvoir, and find very ready
Compliance^ by the Anfwer we have received to our
Letters, from the fever al Committees, and don* t doubt
but their Aftions will be fuitable. The Counties adja-
cent are very forward in this Service, and the Officers
and Soldiers vigilant and full of Courage.

We defired to meet Lieutenant-General David Lef-
ley at Nottingham, and we naming the Place left the
Time to him ; but afterwards receiving a Petition,
herewith fent, from the County of Nottingham, we
wrote to him on Tuefday in the Afternoon to meet us on.
Thurfday j and received from him a Letter,- as you
will perceive, without Date ; which not coming till
Seven at Night on Thurfday , we imagined he meant
Thurfday in the next Week, till we heard, about Mid-
night, from the Governor 0/"Nottinghamj that he hdd
Jlaid were moft of that Day for us.

Lieutenant-GeneralDzvid Lefley met us Yejlei'nigbt
at this Town, and his Letter exprejjing no Committee
of that Kingdom to be with their Army, we defired ta
know what Authority he had to join with us; which9
with the Refutts sf our Conference, is herewith
fent unto you. The Country alledging the Nutri*-
ber of the Scots Soldiers to be under the Lift given
to us, we defired to take Mujlers of that Army
according to our Inftru£lions ; and Jhewed Lieu-
tenant-General LefTey the Ordinance for our dif-
burfing 6oool. to them after Mu/ler taken by us ;
he returned this Anfwer, He could not confent to it
till he had received Authority from his Superiors.
We defired to know whom he meant : He faid,
From the Committee of both Kingdoms at Lon-
don, or any other that could give him Leave ; and
for which he agreed to write to the CcmmiJJisners

of ENGLAND. 197

of Scotland now at London. "Being for the prefent An. 21 Car. I,
debarred from taking Mujhrs^ we proceeded to do |64-S-
this dijireffed Country the bejl Service we could, and Tani^, 4
therefore made him an Offer of 1 0,000 1. Monthly ,
which we preffed him to accept ; and, among Jl other Ar-
guments, For that by the Treaty there (hould be
21,000 Men for 3O,OOO/. Monthly; and io,ooo/.
a Month was more than proportionable for their
Forces, if there were only betwixt 6 and yoco.
He told us, The Number of Horfe encreafed the
Charge. We anfwered, By the Treaty there were
to be 18,000 Foot, 2000 Horfe, and jooo Dra-
goons.

Our Papers follow in the Order ivc received them ;
and, upon cur laft, the Lieutenant-General dtjired to
know if we intended to take off the Reftriffion in our
Letter, which was in thefe Ifrrords, Till we meet,
or whether we did leave him to provide for himfelf.
•After Confultation with the Committee ^"Nottingham,
they agreed with him for 2,500!. for this County for
a Week, which ends on \Vednefday next. Ws brfeech
your Lordjhips to take fyeedily into your Confide ration
how thefe great Inconveniences mav be remedied', and
the Ruin of thefe Parts, and of this wajled Country,
iqay be prevented.

Your Lordfhips moft humble Servants,
J. RUTLAND.
F. WILLOUGHBY.

Next follow, in the Lords Journals, the Papers
mentioned in the foregoing Letter. And firft that
from the Committee of Parliament, lent to Lieu-
tenant-General David Lef><y, which \vas addreffed
to the Scots Commiflioners, whom they fuppofed to
be then refident with the Army before Newark.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

CrH E Convoys are come this Night hither. We
•*• have conferred with Lieutenant-General Urrey ;
and because we defirc the Money find Cloaths may
came with all Speed ta you, and leji the breaking of
N 3 the

¥he Parliamentary HISTORY

An. z« Car. I. the Frojl Jhould make the Way very ill for Carriages*
we have made Ufe of the fame which came from Lon-
don to come to Not ingham ; but by reafon of the
Orders given to their Convoys of Dragoons for their
fpeedy Return to London, we cannot fend them to your
Quarters; we have therefore fent to the Committee at
Nottingham to provide twelve Carriages to be ready at
Nottingham on Monday Morning, to meet the Money
and Provifions there, and to bring them to you. We
defer e yau'to appoint your Commiffary to meet them at
Nottingham, ty give Mr. Squire, who is fent dawn
by the Committee at Goldfmith's-HalU^wr Acquittance
and Difcharge on the Receipt of thefe Particulars, which
are according to this Note inclofed ; and, if you pleafe^
we will meet you at Nottingham, which we fuppoje tioe
mojl convenient, to advije for the carrying on this Ser-
vice intrujled with us by both Kingdoms ; the Time we
leave with you, as may bejl fuit your own Ouajions.

Your Lordfliips

Grantham, Dec. 26,

*645« Affectionate Friends,

andh,umble Serv;nts,

J. RUTLAND.
F, WILLOUGHBY.

Lieutenant-General LESLEY'S Anfwer.

Right Honourable,

I Have received yours of the %6tb of this Inftant, and
4 Jhall, according to your Defire, forthwith dijpatfh
cur CommiJJary to attend our Carriages, at Notting-
ham. I am forry there are none of the Committee of
the Parliament here atprefent to meet with your Lor d~
jljips ; but, if it may pleafe you, I intend to wait on you
at Nottingham on Thurfday next ; whereby I Jhall
be ready to contribute my bejl Endeavours in advijing
what is fittejl to be done in carrying on tty prefent Ser-
vice. 1 am,

Your Jx>rdfliips mofl humble Servant,
DAVJD LESLEY.

The

ENGLAND.

An

The COMMITTEE'S Reply,

S I R,

S have this Day received a Petition frqm the

ef

Count y of Notiingham, exprcjjing their great
and heavy Suffetings^ and their Dcjire cf fpeedy Re-
medy to present thc.ir Ruin. In Dtl:harge of the Truft
Tepoftd in us we jhall dc our utmoft Endeavours for
them, and know not a more ready Way than by our
Jfec.ly conf: rring with yqu ; we therefore dejire you to
meet us en Thurfday Night next, at Nottingham.
Thefe Motives do engage you and us to lofe no Timey
and will, we know* excufe our appointing this Day be-
fore we bear further from yoq.

We hear the loft Wetk\ AJJeJJments on the Counties
^Nottingham and Derby, for your Army, do end
fa-morrow ; and we moji earnejlly defire that no far-
ther AJJejJinents may b; made far your Forces till wt
have met) conjidering {he Jvlifcries of thofe Counties ,
who are utterly cxhaujhd, and that Cloaths and 15,000).
Sterling in Money are come in to you from the Parlia-
ment ; and you will ajjuredly find our complying ft pro-
ii-de Niceffaries for _)'««, thrt your Frier ds may haut
^ and the Counties no Caufc to complain.

Your humble Servants,

Grantham, Dec. 30,

1645- J. RUTLAND.

F. WILLOUGHBT.

Their DECLARATION fent to General LESLEY,
on Occafion of the Scots Commiflioners not being
come to Newark.

Nottingham, Jan. 2, 1645.

TTfHereas we are appointed by L-:b Jlnf's if Par -
*' liament to advife^ debate^ and cwcludt with
our Brethren of Scotland, or fuch as jhall be au-
thorized by them thereunto ; andt bv faint Advice
with themy to put in Execution ail fuch .Matters
and Tilings concerning the well-ordering^ &rsSlmg^
N 4 ar.'J

200 tte Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 1 1 Car. I. an£ Difp0fal of the Forces brought in and employed ly
, * **' , them for their' AJJiJJance ; and hcrv'rng received a Let-
January, ter from you, -wherein it is expreffed that there is no
Committee of the Parliament of Scotland now refiding
with your jfrmy^ we therefore dejtre . to know what
Authority is given unto you from the Parliament of
Scotland to join with us^ that accordingly we may ap-
ply ourfelves in the Prosecution oftbofe Commands which
we have received.

Signed in the Name and by Warrant of the
Committee of both Houfes of the Parliament

of England.

J. RUTLAND.

General LESLEY'S PROPOSALS for Maintenance
of the Scots Army.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

&INCE that your Lordjhips are appointed ly the
Honourable Houfes of the Parliament of England,
to conclude with fuch as/hall be authorized by tl:e Par-
liament of Scotland, to order all Matters concerning the
re ducing the Town ^Newark, to the Obedience of the
Ring and Parliament, I duly expefi there Jkall b'e
Commijjioners fent exprefsfrom the Parliament of Scot-
land to attend your Liordjhips accordingly ; in the mean
Time^ as Commander of 'this Ar my- I am mojl willing
to concur with your Lord/hips in all Things that may be
thought necejjary to the Advantage and Accomplijhment
of the Work in Hand^ provided fufficient Maintenance
may be given for Man and Horfe^ according to the .
following Schedule :

The Foot being 3600 at 4d. per Diem, ]

for feven Days, is ] *

The Officer 3 of the Foot of eight Regiments, 1

at two Parts Pay will amount iveekly to J $ J
The Horfemen being isckoned to 4000, at 1

is. 6d. per Diem, a: Part of their ( 2100

Pay, isforthelf'eek

Carried over - — 3020

*f ENGLAND. 20I

£. An. 21 Car. I.

Brought over — — 3020 l645'

The Officers of the Horfe, at two Parts'} "Tn^T'

Pay per Diem, to the Sum of 280!. and f 1960

far the Week to the Sum of J

The Officers with the Staff and Train of]

Artillery, the weekly Sum of

In all to the weekly Sum of 5280

Nottingham, Jan. a, Your Lordfliips Servant,

DAVID LESLEY.
The ANSWER of the COMMITTEE of Parliament.

Nottingham, Jan. 2, 1645.

do offer to provide for your Army for Horfe,
Foot, Officers of the Staff, and Train of Artil-
lery •> the Sum of io,oool. for twenty-eight Days, to'
he gin from Wednefday loft pajl ; a third Part to be
paid in Money, the other two third Parts in Provijions,
according to the Rates under-mentioned^ which Jhall be
brought into your Quarters weekly. We can give ?io
Anfwer to the Number of Soldiers, until, with your
Confint, Muflers of them foall be taken by fuch as we
Jhall appoint j Lut when we have taken Mujiers, we
fhalhtfe our be/I Endeavours that Subjijience be provided
for them according to their Numbers,

1. s. d.

Oats per Quarter, — — O 14 o

Hny per Stone, — • — O O 2

Pea s and Bears per Strike^ 028

Straw per Threruc, — — O O 6
Bfef\w Pcund, — — O o 2j-

Muiton, Lamb, Veal, per Pound, 003

Pork per Pound — — 004

Bread per Pound — — o O J

Cheeje per Pound, — — 002!
Butter per Pound, — — 004
Oatmeal per Strike, — — 048

202 The Parliamentary H I s T o R r

A*. »i Car. f. 3/^ _ — 034.

Milk and Beer per Gallon* — 004

in the Name and by Warrant of the
Committee of both Houfes of the Parliament;
of fingland.

J. RUTLAND.

General LE SLE Y'S

My Lords and Gentlemen,

T Under/land your Lord/hips are willing to give srJy:
"*• IO,OOO 1. for the Maintenance af our Army for
twenty-eight Days, which will not amount to the Half
of what may makt us ft:.l>Jjfl, and is impojjible for me to
condescend unto ; for the Horfsitien muji be allotted i s.
6d. per Diem, //6*/W-&iA5&r$4d. and the Officers two
Parts of their full Means ; wherefore J fall humbly
deftre your Lordjhips in be pleafed to give Orders for
fufficient Maintenance while we hear farther from the
Committee of both Kingdoms : In doing thereof you jhall
further oblige me^ and t,hofe under my Command^ to un-
dergo any thing that may bejl conduce to the Goad of the
Public Service.

Your ^ord£hips humble Servant,

Nottinefcam, Tan. a,

»Hs. DAVID LESLEY,

Jan. 7. The Commons fent up a Meflage to,
acquaint the Lords with the following Examination
taken by a Committee of their Houfe, concerning
ibme Plots intended to have been executed upon
the King's Coming to London ; in which it was re-
folved to fecure the City, the Tower, and the
Parliament before they meddled with any private
Bufmefs.

An Examination *****, Being examined faith, ' That
lak-nconterning ' he heard Prince Rupert^ with many others,
*xpj°t^°. be ' fwear, That if his Uncle could but get into Lon-*-
7 t, though but with 300 Menj before they had

4 been

9f ENGLAND.

•' been there three Hours he fhould have 3000,
4 3000, and 3000 to that ; and that he himfelf

* would cut all trje Throats of the Round-Head

* Rogues that fit in the Parliament.

That Prince Rupert faid, His Uncle had many
' Friends in London which durft not {hew them-
' felves ; but when his Uncle came they would,

* and then he cjid not doubt but to make good all

* their LoiTes ; and Prince Maurice confirmed and

* agreed to thefe Speeches of his Brqther by many
< Oaths.

* And this the Examinant is ready to rifeke good
' to be moft true upon his Oath.

* And this Examinant farther faith, That all

* the Reformadoes being about to guard his Ma-

* jetty's Perfon on New Year's Eve, at Nighf, it

* was noifed that his Majefty would go to to Lon~
' don the next Morning, whether the Letters from
' the Parliament came or no ; upon this there v/a.j
' a Buftle in Oxford to provide to go immediately ;

* and that it was the general Voice, that their

* Party is fo great here, as they have AfTurance

* from thofe who ce»me from London daily without
' Interruption, that, if his Majefty come, they
4 fliall eafily deftroy the City and the Parliament,
« and take all to themifelves : And that upon the
f Stop of his Majefty's Coming, the next Day it

* was ordered. That all the Troopers (hould quaiv

* ter in and about Oxford upon Free-Quarter for a
*• Fortnight, becaufe they hoped to come away
' before that Time,'

« It is obfervablc, That the Proof of this Plot
refted upon the Credit of one fingle Witncfs with-
out a Name : And when it is alfo remembered that
about this Time Prince Rupert was in Dilgrace
wjth the King, there feems fome Reafon to ap-
prehend, That this Plot was only a Contrivance
of the Indcpendant Party, whofe Views were in-
confiftent with any 'Peace at all ; nnJ were apprc-
hcnfive that the King's Perfonal Treaty with tlic
4 c Parliaiawit

204 (^3e Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2i Car. I. Parliament might create too good an Underftand-
t l6^- , ing between them.

All this Time the Parliament's laft Anfwer to

the King was ftaid from fending away, for Want

The Anfwer to of the Scots Commiffioners Confent to it. The

the Kmp's Mcf PafTage they obie&ed to. with their Reafons for fo

fiees of Decem- j • ° i_ i j • u

ker a6d» and doing, we have already given : However, it was
»9th, as fettled at laft agreed, that the Members of both Houfes,
by the Parlia- wno were of the Committee of both Kingdoms,

S commif- fhould have Power to fettle thi& Matter with the
Scots, and alter the Sentence objected to as they
thought fit: But, not before this Day, Jan. 13,
was the Letter agreed to and figned by all Parties,
in which the Paffage objected to was altered thus :
That Propofitions from both Kingdoms were fpeedily
to be fent to your Majefty, which we conceive to be
the only li^ay for obtaining an happy and well-
grounded Peace ; and your Majejly's AjJ'ent unto
thofe Propofitions will be an ejfettual Means for
giving Satisfaflien and Security to your Kingdoms :
Inftead of, That Propofitions from both Kingdoms
were fpeedily to be fent to your Majefty ; which being
afjentcd unto by your Majejly^ will be the only Means
whereby you can give Satisfaction and Security to your
Kingdoms.

It is obfervable here, that though Mr. Rttjfajrtb
gives us all the Meffages from the King, with the
dnfwer s from both Houfes, yet he takes no Notice
cf the feveral Altercations between the Parliament
and the Scots Commiffioners ; the laiter of whom
feemed to have expreffed moft Regard to the King's
Honour.

The Siege of Newark ftil! continuing, the Lords
received a Letter this Day from the Commiffioners
fent down into thofe Quarters, recommending an
inclofed Petition to them, to their ferious Confidera-
tion : which, fmce it fully and pathetically exprelTes
the Miferies of the Country in the Neighbourhood
cf Newark, is too material to be omitted.

To

of E K C L A N D. 205

Art. i i Car. I.

the Right Hon. the COMMITTEE of LORDS . *6*5' .

and COMMONS^ Januaiy;

he HUMBLE PETITION of the Inhabitants of that
Part of the County of Nottingham lying on the
North Side Trent,

Sheweth,

THAT we did of late, by an humble Peti- A Petition fr«m
fc'wr, prefent unto your Honours the Pay- SjJ^f^J
ments and Sufferings of this County by Occafion forth the Diftrefc
of this prefent War } which, within three Years of that County,
laft, did amount to above a Million of Money,
whereof we did account the Charge of this pre-
fent Scots Army to be but 200*000 1. which now,
upon Examination by your Honours Direction,
will appear to be 261,1897. Js. 2d. notwithftand-
ing divers whole Towns, and many other parti-
cular Perfons-, have not brought in their Bills
touching the fame. We did with the lefs Grief
undergo the grievous Preffures of the Scots Army,
in a comfortable Hope that your Honours Coming
into thefe Parts would afford us a fpeedy Relief;
being fully perfuaded then as we are ftill, that
that Army was not invited j or drawn hither, with
any Intent to be our irreparable Ruin.
* Notwithftanding cur humble Reprefentation,
and your Honours Accefs to it, we yet un-
derftand not any Eafc ; but find this Part of the
County ftill charged with an Affeffment of 2500^.
weekly, bcfides, for the moft Part, free Quarter
for all Officers and lifted Soldiers, and for all
other Men, Women, and Boys depending on, or
fhadowing themfclves under, that Army ; and
that which is worft of all is, the Tyranny and
Evils incident to free Quarter in the bed-govern-
ed Armies. If that 2500 /. with the Charge of
the free Quarter, (hall ftill contiue, it cannot be
lefs, in our Opinions, than 5000 /. weeldy,
which muft be borne by two Parts in three of

• an

Ap. si Car.f.

1645.

January.

*Fbe Parliamentary H i s T 6 R Y

an Half of this County, by reafon of untenanted
Grounds^ and Places vifited with the Sicknefs.
* This being our fad and lamentable Condition,-
bringing upon us prefent and apparent Deftruc-
tion, we once more humbly crave Leave to prefent
the fame to your Honb'urs Goodnefs and great
Wifdoms ; befeeching your Honours Confedera-
tion and prefent Relief, without which, thefe Af-
feflments and free Quarters ftill continuing upon!
us, it will inevitably follow that, as a third Part
of this County is already deferted, and every Day
others are continually leaving their Places, and
conveying what Goods they can away, the fmail
Remainder, that cannot do the like, muft bear all
the Burden ; or, finking under it, will be driven
to proftrate all their Eftates to the Mercy of the
Army, and be forced to beg from them %Partto
keep themfejves and Families from periftiing.'

Before the Parliament's :laft Anfwer could get tcf
the King's Hands) his Majeft.y had difpatched ano-
ther Letter to them, which was read in the Houfe
#f Lords, this Day, Jan. 16, as follows :

For the SPEAKER of the Haufe of PEERS pm
Tempsre, to be communicated to the tw9 Houfes;
of Parliament at Wejlminfler^ and the Commif-
fioners of the Parliament of Scotland.

CHARLES R.

J)UT that thefe are Times wherein nothing is

The King'sFifth JD grange, it were a Thing much to be marvelled

Peuef Juu 15, at what Jlxuld taufe this unparalleled long Deten-

before his receiv- tion of his Majejlys Trumpet^ fent with his gracious

Ing the Parlia- Mefikgc of the 26th of December /<?/?, Peace

tothVtwo ill" being the only Subjeft of it, and his Majejly's Per-

fonal Treaty the Means propofed for it. And it

were almoji as great a Wonder ^ that his Majejfy

Jhould be fo long from enquiring after it, if that the

hourly Expectation thereof hud not in fame Meafurt

fatnfad

ef E N G L A N £>. 207

^atisfed bis Impatience. But left his Majtfty, by his An' 2I Car. J,
'long Silence, Jbould condemn bimfelf of CareleJJnefs in t l6*5' A
that which fo much concerns the Good of all his People, January.
be thinks it high Time to enquire after his J "aid Trum-
peter : For fmce all Men, who pretend any G.oadnefs,
muft deftre Peace, and that all Men know Treaties to
i>e the be/I and moft Chriftian Way to procure it -, and
there being as little ^ueftion that his Majefty' s perfonal
•Prefence in it is the likelieft Way to bring it to a happy

fie, he judges then mud be fame ftrange Variety of
•.idents which caufttbthis moft tedious Delay : Where-
fore his Majefty earneftly dejires to have a fpeedy
Account of his former Meflage, the Subject where-
of is Peace, and the Means bis perfonal Prefcnce at
Weftminfter ; where, the Government of the Church
'being fettled as it was in the Times of the happy and
glorious Reigns of gtheen Elizabeth and King James,
and full Liberty for the Eafe of their Con-
faience? who will not communicate in that Ser-
vice eftablijhed by Law, and likewife for the free
and public Ufe of the Directory (prescribed, andt
by Command of the two Houfes of Parliament, now
praflifed in fame Parts of the City of London) to
fuch as Jhall dejire to ufe the fame ; and all Forces
being agreed to be dijhanded, his Majefty will then
forthwith (as he hath in his Meflage <f the zqtk
of December laft already offered,} join with his
two Houfes of Parliament in fettling fome Way
for the rayment of the Public Debts t» bis Scots
Subjects, the City of London, and others, And hit
Majelly having propofed a fair Way for the fettling
of the Militia, which, now, by this long Delayt
j'eems not to be thought fufficient Security, his Ma-
jefty (to Jhew how really he will employ himfeif at
iris Coming to Weftminfter for making this a Raft-
ing Peace, and taking away all Jealoujies, how
groundlefs foever) will endeavour, upon Debate
with his two Houfes, fo to difpofe of it, as likewife
tf the Bufmefs of Ireland, as may give to them and
both Kingdoms jnft Satisfatlijti ; not doubting a/Jo
but to give good Contentment to his tuo Houfes of

Parliament,

2o8 the Parliamentary HISTORY

An. »i Car. I. Parliament, in the Choice of the Lord- Admiral, the
t l6*5' , Officers ^ef State, and others, if his two Houfest
January. h their ready Inclinations to Peace, Jhall give him
Encouragement thereunto.

'thus his Majefty having taken Occafton, by his juft
Impatience, fo to explain his Intentions that no Man
can doubt of a happy Ijfue to this fucceeding Treaty ;
If now there Jhall be fo much as d Delay to the fame, he
calls God and the IVorld to witnefs who they are that
not only hinder, but rejett> this Kingdom's future Hap-
pinefs : It being fo much thejiranger, that his Majejiy's
Coming to Weftminfter (which was the firji greatejl
Pretence for taking up Arms} /hould be fo much as
delayed, much lefs not accepted or refufed. But his
JMajefty hopes that God will no longer jujjfer the Malice
df wicked Men to hinder the Peace of this too-much
afflified Kingdom.

Given at the Court at Oxford, the I5th of J0-
nudry, 1645*

The Lords ordered that this Meffage fhould be
communicated to the Houfe of Commons and the
Scots Commiflioners, as foon as poflible.

The City of Lon- The fame Day the Lord Mayor, Aldermen of
don petition for l,ondon^ &ff. prefeiited a Petition to the Lords,
«£trfrGh«Ieh. importing, That they defired a fpeedy Settlement
Comnment. of Church-Government might be ordained in the
City, for the fuppreffing of all private Meetings
on the Lord's Day, which were multiplied to fucli
a Height, that there were no lefs thafi eleven m
one Parifh : That there were Inftances of Women-
Preachers in thefe Meetings, and of new and
ftrange Doctrines and Blafphemies vented in them;
whereby they faid, the godly Orthodox Minifters
wefe negle&ed and contemned as if they were anti-
chriftianj and a£ted as under the Tyranny of a
Prelatical Government, £ffr. The Lords gave
them ftrong AfTurances of their firm Attachment
to Prefbytery, according to their Covenant, and of
their beft Endeavours to anfwer the Defires of the
Petitioners.

The

of ENGLAND. 209

Jan. 17. An Ordinance for extending and en- An. at e»r,l«
. larging of Martial Law was read, and, upon the
Queition, agreed to. The Earls of Ejjex and
Lincoln, and the Lord Roberts, only diiienting ; but
no Reafons afiigned for it. This was a new Bill of
the Lords, the Commons having fent up one before,
v/hich their Lordftiips had rejected.

yan. 19. The Speaker prefented another Letter
to the Lords, from the King, which was read in
kxc Verba :

For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS pro
Tempore^ to be communicated to the two Houks
of Parliament at Wefiminfler, and the Commif-
fioners of the Parliament of Scotland.

CHARLES R.

YTlS Majejiy thinks not fit now to anfwer thofe Another M.-ffag
•* •*• jffperfions which are returned as Arguments Jor >rom '^e ^'nfy
his Non-admittance to \Veitminfterycr a Perfonal jw'an'Anfwe'r
Treaty, becaufe it would inforce a Style not fuitable to all bufjroic;<
to his End, it being the Peace ofthefe mifirable King-'
doms : Yet thus much he cannot but fay to thofe who
have fent him this Anfwer, That, if they had confide r-
ed what they had done them f elves in occajioning the
fhedding of fo much innocent Blood, by withdrawing
themfelves from their Duty to him in a Time when he
had granted fo much to his Suljefls, and in violating
the known Laws of the Kingdom to draw an exorbitant
Power to themfelves over their Felhw-SuLjecJs^ (to jay
no more, to do as they have done] they could not ba\'d
given fuch a falfe Character of his Mnjeftys Aclions :
Wherefore his Majejiy mufl now refnember them, that
' having, feme Hours before bis receiving of their Paper
of the iyb of January,' fent another MciTage to thf»:
of the l$th ; wherein, by divers Particulars, he tn-
largeth h'wifelf to Jhew the Reality cf his Endea-
vours for Peace by his defired PcHonal Treaty,
which he ft ill conceives to be the likeliefl JFay to attain
to that bleffed End, he thinks /r, iy this Mel-
VOL. XIV. O ' fa^c.

2 1 o <fbe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. zi Car. I-fagc, to call for an Anfwer to that, and indeed to all
fi45' . ( the former ; for certainly no rational Man can think
January. ^ie'ir ^ PaPer can be any Anlwer to bis former De-
mands , the Scope of it being^ that becaujc there is a War,
therefore there Jhould be no Treaty jor Peace. And
is it pojfible to expect that the Proportions mentioned
Jhould be the Grounds of a lajling Peace, when the Per-
Jons that fend them will not endure tt hear their own
Kingfpeak ? But whatever the Succefs hath been of his
Majejfy's former MefTages, or how Jmall joever his
Hopes are of a better ', confidering the high Strain of
thofe who deal with bis Majejly^ yet he will neither
•want fatherly Bowels to his Subjects in general^ nor
will he forget that God hath appointed him for their
King, with whom he treats : Wherefore he now de- v
mands a fpeedy Anfwer to his lajl and former
Meffages.

Given at our Court at Oxon, this I7th ofjtf-
nuary, 1645.

The Lords ordered that this Letter fhould be
communicated as before. The Commons ient up a
MeiTage the fame Day, to defire the Lords to agree,
.that this Letter might be referred to the Committee
of both Kingdoms, to confider of it and draw up an
Anfwer , with the Advice of the Scots Commiffioners.,
for the Vindication of the Parliaments of both
Kingdoms.

Jan. 22. A Meflage was brought from the Houfe
of Commons by Mr, Nichols, and others, who pre-
fented to their ^ordfhips the following Letter re-
lating to the taking of Dartmouth :

For the Honourable WILLIAM LENTHALL, Efq;
Speaker of the Honourable Houfe of Commons.

Arr.Ruftworth'B SIR,
Letter concern-

JF Iwr'lte confufedly, IJbaUhumbly crave ywr Par-
SJrTJwmasFair- *• don ; for ive have been up all Night, find Things
ftx' are not yet in a fettled Condition, In my former

Letters

of ENGLAND. sir

Letters / acquainted you how the Army was engaged An' 2 * Car»

£^/0>v Dartmouth, « Place of as great, if not greater v ] s> t

Concernment than Exeter. // required fame few January.
Days Time to be thoroughly informed of the State
of the Town, after which it was unanimoujly refolved
tojlorm the fame \ for we find more Lofe of Men by
lingering Sieges than by fudden Storms. Every Corn-
minder was allotted to his Pojl, and they as faithfully
and valiantly performed their Duties \ every Man
gaining the Command of every Foot or Place to his
Lot, with all the Ordnance, Arms, and Ammunition.

The Storm began about One o Clock this Morning.
After the Enemy had difcharged their Cannon once, our
Men got under the Shot, pojfejjed the Cannon, and
tnrned them againjl the Enemy ; for we had no Pieces
at all of our own, the Weather not admitting any
to be brought. After the Line was cleared, and
fome Works taken, we became Majlers of the whole
Town, and then of Tonftall-Church, Mount-Fla-
gon, Paradife Fort, and the Old Caftle, in which
Caftle are Jive great Iron Guns which commanded the
River. In the Storm our Men pojfejfid themfelves of
about 60 Pieces of 'Ordnance.

The two great Forts are not yet taken, being a Mile
from the Town, but if they accept not of Quarter while
they may have it, in the Opinion of the General, Lieu-
tenant-General, and Commanders, we may reduce them
by Forte in forty-eight Hours ; and batter them in.
Pieces with their own Great Guns, which we have
taken in the Town, one whereof is a Brafs Demy
Cannon.

Truly 1 'never faw Men fall on more chearfufy and
merrily. Mr. Dell and Mr. Peters preached unto
them, and put much Life into them; and God was
wonderfully merciful to us, for we had but one Man
flain and but few wounded, though the Forts played
moft fiercely on the Soldiers.

The Commanders and Forces that were engaged in
th' St&rm were Col. Hammond ami his Regiment ',
Csl. Lambert and bis Regiment ; Cal. Fortefcue anit
-ns Regiment ; Lieut. Col. Pride with Col. Harley's
O z Regiment -t

2 1 2 efhe. Parliamentary HISTORY

An. - ' Car. I. Regiment ; and a good Party out of the. General "*
and Col. Ingoldby's Regiments, and, lajtly, 200 Sea-
men and feme Dragooners ; and though the 'Town was
entered thus by Storm, yet very little Prejudice was
done to the Town/men, the Soldiers being /air-
conditioned beyond Expectation. They grumbled a lit-
tle they had noi the Reward prom ifed at Briftol to fave
that Town from Plundering, which City deftrves to
feel the Smart of Plunder for their Unthankfulnefs for
the great Favours they found from the Army.

The Mfffenger is in Hajie to be gone , and for fur-
ther Particulars the Houfe will Juddenly receive an
Account,

It hath phafcd God wonderfully to blefs the Army in
this Expedition jo far Weft ; not only tofcatter tie
Enemy's Horfe, but to hinder the Relief intended for
Exeter ; and interrupted, nay quite broke, the young
GcKeraiiJfimo (a) in his new Levies j relieved Ply-
mouth, and infbrced the Enemy into Cornwall ; leav~
ing a Force fufficient to befiege Exeter. If the Army
had formerly advanced, leaving that City unbejieged, as
it was much dcfired, 1 think that Service would not have
been of fo much Advantage as the taking it this
Seafon. Whilfi you have Commanders that are faith -
ful, if you'll let them put their Defigns in Execution
when their own Convergence and 'Judgment lead them to
it, I hope you will favt no Cauje to repent it j but it is
hard io pleafe all.

Juft now the Enemy beats a Parley in the two
great Forts, fo you may be ajfitred we may have them
on any Terms. The General fent the Comptroller to
fummon the two Men of War in the River, who
yielded immediately j the one was Gapt. Johnfon's
Ship of Newcaftle, of ten Pieces of Ordnance j the
ether of fourteen Pieces of Ordnance, belonging to the
Governor of Barnftaple. In Tonftall-Church we
took 1 20 Prifoners, about 400 more in the Town

and

(«) The Prince of Walei; who had, this Year, been appointed
General of all the King'j Fwces in England, apd aJfo cf the Wtfcrn
Aflociation.

of E N G L A N D. 213

and ether Works. I humbly take my Leave, and An> a ' Car- *•
remain, v_*^5*

Your mod humble Servant,

DartmdU'h, Jan. 19.

164,, Four in the JQ. RUSH WORTH.

Morning.

A Day cf Thankfgiving was ordered by both
Houfes for this News,

Jan. 23. A Letter from General Fairfax was
prefented to the Lords and read, containing fome
farther Particulars relating to the Storming of
Dartmouth, dated Jan. 20. This Mr. Rujbworth
has inferted in his Collegians, to which therefore we
refer [a] : But as he has only therein printed a
fhort Extract from his own, we have given it at
large as entered in the Lordt Journals ; and it ap-
pears by thofe of the Commons, that the Meflenger
who brought it had a Reward of 20 /. for his Pains.
The Letter from the General was fent up by the
famous Hugh Peters, one of his Chaplains ;
who acquainted their Lordfhips with the feveral
Providences of God to the Army ; as likewife with
the prefent Condition of the Enemy, and what
Prifoners they had taken at Dartmouth : And that
there were Endeavours to carry the Prince beyond
the Sea j as alfo of the Activity and Unity of the
Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax. He likewife pre-
fented to the Houfe divers Colours of Horfe taken
at Bovy-Tracy, and others taken in Dartmouth :
A Popifh Alter-Stone and a Mais-Book, and fe-
veral Papers and Letters taken in the Governor's
Study : That two of the Prifoners, viz. the
Earl of Newport and Mr. Denham, Son to the late
Baron Denham, who had been ferviceable to
the General in gaining of the Forts which held
out at Dartmouth, after the Town was taken,
were fent up, upon their Parole to render them-
felves Prifoners within ten Days : And further,
that, by Command of the General and Council ?f
War, he was commanded to requcft, that the
O 3 Army

(?) Vol. VI. p. 9«.

2 1 4 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. Army might be forthwith recruited, and the Cloaths
*645' , that are provided fpeeded to them, they having yet
January, received none of them. Hereupon,

Both Houfes ordered a Letter to be fent to Sir
/nSrecdves Thomas Fairfax, to take Notice of his great Ser-
gmt Acknow- vices, and of his Expreffions and Affections j and
1 to ac<lua^nt n'm wnat Efteem the Houfes had of
them; and what they had done in Confideration of
them.

The Commons referred it to the Committee of
the Army, to confider how the 5000 /. per Annum,
Land of Inheritance, by former Vote ordered to b^
beftowed upon Sir Thomas Fairfax General, may
be fpeedily fettled upon him and his Heirs for ever,
and he be put into the prefent Pofleffion of it ; and
that the Committee do bring in an Ordinance to thi«
Purpofe with all convenient Speed.

It was alfo referred to the Committee of the Wejl9
to take Confideration of Mr. Peter •*, for his prefent
Charge ancl Neceilxties, and for a certain future
Subfiftance, in fome convenient Proportion con-
fiderable to his Services and Affections (a).

Letters from the Englijb Commiflioners .refiding
in the Scots Army before Newark were read ; but
tfaey give no Account of the Progrefs of the Siege,
and are only on the Provifions afleffed by their
Warrants, and brought in from all the neighbour-
ing Counties, for the Support of the Scots Army.

Jan. 24. The Committee of both Kingdoms
acquainted the Lords, that one from Oxford inform-
ed them, That he heard there the King {hould tell
the Junto that he would come to London, if he was
fure to be (hot to Death as foon as he came there.
But no further Notice is taken of this extraordinary
Piece of Intelligence.

Jan. 26. Another Letter from the King was
this Day prefented to the Houfe, and read. It was

a further

(tf) Mr. Wbitlocke wjitas, That Mr. Petert had ioo/. ptr Annum

fettled oo him and his Heirs, out of the Earl of Wcrcefttr't Efbte.

But it appears, by the Journali, to have been zoo/, out of his Son's/
(be Earl of Glamorgan.

of E N G L A N D. 215

a further Reply to the Parliament, and was as An. n Car. 1.
follows : L 't45'^

For the S P E A K E R of the Houfe of PEERS pro
Tempore, to be communicated to the two Houfes
of Parliament at Wejlminfter, and to the Commif-
fioners of the Parliament of Scotland.

CHARLES R.

CT^H E procuring Peace to thefe Kingdoms by The King's Rc-

"*- Treaty isfo much de fired by bis Majejly, that no^» Jafl;24. »o

un)uft Afperfans whatfoever, or any other Difcourage"}^ Anfwer of

Tnents, Jhall make him defift from doing his Endeavour Jan. 13.

therein, until he Jhall fee it altogether impojjible : And

therefore he hath thought fitting fo far only to make Rt-

ply to that Paper or Anfwer which he hath received of

the i yh of this InJIant January, as may take away

thafe Objections which are made again/} his Maje/ty's

Coming to Weitminfter, expecting Jlill an Anfwer to

his Meflages of the \$th and I'jth, which he hopes by

this Time have begotten better Thoughts and Resolutions

in the Members of both Houfes. And,

Firft, Therefore, whereas in the faid lajl Paper it
is objetted as an Impediment to his Majeftys Perfonal
Treaty, That much innocent Blood hath been Jhed in
this War by his Majefty's CommiJJions, &c, this he will
uot now difpute, (it being apparent to all the World by
whom that Blood hath been fpilt) but rather preffeth
that there Jhould be no more ; and, to that End only he
bath defered this Perfonal Treaty, as judging if the
moft immediate Means to aboli/hfo many horrid Confu-
fions in all his Kingdoms. And it is no Argument to
fay, That there Jhall be no fuch Perfonal Treaty
becaufe there have been Wars^ it being a Jirong
Inducement to have fuch a Treaty to put an End to.
the War.

Secondly, That there Jhould be no fuch Perfonal,
Treaty, becaufe fame of his Irifti Subjects have re~.
paired to his Affijlance in it, feems an Argument alto-
gft/jer as Jlrange as the other ; as always urging
that there /bould be no Phyfick becaufe the Party is
04 . fat:-

1645.

— <V~

January.

2 1 6 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 9.1 Car. I. ftck : And in this Particular it bath been often olfer-
ved unto tbetn^ That thofe whew, they call iri{h, who
have fo exprejjed their Loyalty to their Sovereign,
were indeed, for the me/I Part, Englifh Prote/innts
that bad been formerly fcnt into Ireland ly the tivi
Houfes ; impcjjibilitated tojiay there any longer by the
NfgUft of thofe that fe nt them thither, who Jhouid tbern
kaie better provided for them. And for any foreign
Forces j it is too apparent that their Annies have
(warmed with them, when his Majejly hath bad few or
none,

And whereas, fir a third Impediment, it is a Hedged,
'That the Prince is in tbt Head of an Army in the
Wefly and that thefre are divers Garrifonsjlill kept in
his Majejiy's Obedience, and that there are Forces in'
Scotland; it mi ft be as muck confeffed, as that as yet
there is no Peace ; and therefore it is defired that, by
fufh a Perfonal Treaty, all thefe Impediments may be>
r.inwd. And it is not here amifs to put them in
Mind, how, long fince, his Majejly ^ did prefs a Dif-
banding of all Forces on both Sides, the Refufmg
whereof hath been the Cmife of this Objection. And
•whereas Exception is taken, That there is a Time limit-
td in the Proportion for bis Majeftys Perfonal Trea-
ty, thereupon inferring, that he Jhouid again return to
Hottility ; his Majejly protejhth, that he feeks this
Treat)' to avoid future Hojlility, and to procure a laji-
ing Peace ; and if he can meet with like Inclinations
to Peace in thofe he deferes to treat with, he will bring
fuch AjfecHons and Rejblutions in hitttfelfas frail end ail
thefe unhappy ani bloody Differences.

As for thofe Engagements which his Majejly hath
defired for his Security ; whofoever Jhall call to Mind
the particular Occafions that enforced his Majejiy to
leave his City of London and Weftminfler, will
judge his Demand very reasonable and necejjary for.
his Safety. 'But he no way conceiveth how the Lard
Mayor, Aldermen, Common-Council, and Militia of
London, were either fitbjeft cr jubordinate to that
Authority which is alledged, as knowing neither Law
ndr Pratiice fir it ^ and if the two Annies be, he

9f ENGLAND. 217

believes it is more than can be paralleled In by any for- An. 21 Car.T.
mer Times in this Kingdom. Nor can his Majefly un- l645-
derftand bow his Majejly's fee king of a Pcrfonal Seen- tan^
ritv can be any Breach of Privilege ; it being more
likely to be infringed by hindering his Majejly from
coming freely to his two Houjes.

As for the Oljeclion, That his Majefly omitted to
mention the fettling Religion, and fecuring the Peace of
his native Kingdom, his Majejly declares , That he con-
ceives it was included in his former ', and hath been par-
ticularly mentioned in his latter Meflage of the i$thpre-
fent : But, for their better Satisfaction, he again expref-
feth that it was, andeverjhall be, both his Meaning and
Endeavour in this Treaty, defired; and it feems to
him very clear that there is no Way for a finai Ending
of fuel) Dijlraclions as afflitt this Kingdom, but either
by Treaty or Conquejl ; the latter of which his Majejly
hopes none will lave the Impudence or Impiety to wijh
for : And fur the former, if his Personal AJJiflance in
it be not the mojl likely Way, let any reafonable Man
judge ; when, by that Means, r.ot only all unr e ejfary
Delays will be removed, but even the greateft Difficul-
ties made eafy : And therefore he doth now again ear-
nejl'y infijl upon that Propofition, expecting to have a
better Anfwer upon mature Confederation. And can
it be imagined that any Propofitions will be fo ejfcflual,
being formed before a Perfonal Treaty, as fuch as are
framed and propounded upon a full Debate on both
Sides ? Wherefore his Majefty, who is mojl concerned
in the Good of his People, and is mijl deftrous to re-
Jlore Peace and Happinefs to his three Kingdoms,
d.t'> again injlantly deftre an Anfwer to his faid
former Meflages, ts which he hath hitherto receiv*
ed none.

Given at our Court at Oxon, the 24th of Ja-
nuary, 1645.

Jan. 27. Cromwell's Command in the Army, as Gen OoroweJlV
Lieutenant-General of the Horfe under Sir Thomas ^'»niand in the

TI • i i i r T>- Army funntr

rairfaX) having been prolonged from 1 inie to

Time,

2 1 8 'The Parliamentary HISTORY

C»r. I. Time, this Day an Ordinance was made for adding
' ^1X Months more to his Commiilion, at the Expira-
tlon °^ '^e Pre^ent > from which Time we do not
find that he ever gave himfelf the Trouble to apply
for any farther Leafe of his Power.

Intercepted Let- The Lords Journals informs us, That feveral
ters, relating to papers relating; to the Affairs of Ireland* had been

the Earl of Gla-, r, r • i ' n i- r

;norgan's Nego- lately tranfmitted to Parliament; from whence it
tution* in Ire- appeared to both Houfes, That the King, by the
T6 ¥eans of Lord Herbert, had entered into a Negotia-
* tion with the Rebels in that Kingdom, for bringing
over 10,000 of them to his Afliftance, in reducing
the Parliament of England. This Nobleman was
the eldeft Son and Heir apparent of the Aiarquis of
JVorcefter ; and though he is ftiled in the Journals
only Lord Herbert, yet the King addrefied his Let-
ters to him, in the Life -time of his Father, as Earl ojf
Glamorgan ; which Title he ufually bore, there now
remaining in the 3ignet-Office a Bill under the
Royal Sign Manual at Oxford, (if a Patent did not
pafs the Great Seal thereupon) for his being created
Earl of Glamorgan^ and Baron Beaufort of Caldecat-
Cajile, in the County of Monmoutb.

In order to account how the Houfes got into Po£-
feffion of Papers of fuch Confequence, it will be
neceflary to remember That, in July this Year, the
Town of Sligo was taken by the Englijh, and a
Garrifon placed there. In Otfober following the
Jrijh endeavoured to retake it, but were defeated in
that Attempt, and drove back with great Execu-
tion. Amongft the Slain was the Archbifhop of
Tuam, the Rebels Pre^dent of Connaughty and one
of their fupreme Council , of Kilkenny, who attended
their Army at this Time to vifit his Dioccfe, and
to execute an Order for the Arrears of his Bifiiop-
rick. Amongft his Baggage were found a Bull
of the Pope's, and feveral Letters between him and
his Agents from Rome, Paris, &c. with a Copy
of certain Articles of Agreement between the

Earl

of E N G L A N D. 219

Earl of Glamorgan and fome of the chief Rebels An. a i Car. I.
touching Clergy-Livings, together with the Earl's l645-
Oath relating to it. ' 7"* ~~~l

Thefe Papers were printed by Order of Parlia-r
ment, and demand our Notice ; as the Difcovery
raid Seizure of them gave Occaflon to many very
remarkable Votes, Orders, and MeJJages. They
were publifhed under this Title, The Earl of Gla-
morgan's Negotiations and colourable Commitment in
Ireland dcmcnjirated j or, the Irifh Plot, &c.

When the forementioned Negotiation came to be
known, the Earl of Glamorgan was committed to
Prifon by the Lord Digby, one of the principal Se-
cretaries of State, then in Ireland^ who wrote the
following Account of it to Secretary Nicholas :

My good Brother,

'oftl

was hopeful fuddenly to have concluded fuch a Peace as
would have afforded his Majejly powerful and timely
Aids from this Kingdom, had not the unfortunate Mad-
nefs (for I can give it no other Name) of my Lord of
Glamorgan, and the necejjary Proceedings thereupon,
cafl all "Things back into a Pojlure as uncertain and
more dangerous than ever. You will receive from my
Lord-Lieutenant and the Council here, a punfiual Re-
lation of the Matter of Fatt ; and it is referred to me
to convey unto you, and by you to his Majejly, the Cir-
cum/fauces and Reafons oftfre whole Proceeding again/I
his Lordjhip.

About ten Days fine e, Matters of the Treaty grow-
ing near to a Canclufion, and in Confidence thereof
Preparations being made by my Lord of Glamorgan
and the Irilh, as they ajfured us, for the fpeedy
fending over of 3000 Men for the Relief e/Chefter,
which were to be made up 10,000 before the Begin-
ning of March, it was thought nsccjfary that we

Jhould

220 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. »i Car. I. Jhould confer with the faid Earl 0/" Glamorgan anst
>645- feme of the Irifh Comraijjioners ; to the end that , before
my Lord-Lieutenant's final Confent to the Articles of the
January. Treaty, the Bufinefs of the King's Supply might he re-
duced from Difcourfe to a Certainty, and directed in
the mtft advantageous Way fir his Service : To which
End (^ue little fufpecling then what was fince difcwer-
ed) the faid Earl of Glamorgan, and fame of the
Irifh CommiJ/ioners then at Kilkenny, were earnejlly
invited hither both by my Lord- Lieutenant and myfelf*

Upon Monday lajl, the Day before the fold Earl of
Glamorgan was expected in Town, my Lord'Lieu-
tenant received out of the North, from an hone/1 and
wsll-affecied Perfon, the Copy which is fint you of my
Lord of Glamorgan's Articles and Oath, with the con-
federate Catholics, affured to have been found in the
"titular Bijhap of Tuam's Pocket ; killed in October
la ft at Sligo. Atfirjl the Thing appeared fo impojffible^
that we were apt to think it a Forgery and Plot of the
Parliamentary Rebels againft the King ; 'till conjider-
ing the Circum/lanccs^ Formalities^ and Punctualities
thereof ^ we grew to apprehend fomewhat more of the
Matter; andyfoon after, a fecond and third Copy of
the fame coming to other Perfons, all with Letters to
the Effecl of this indofed, it was then thought high
Time to take the Bujinefs into more ferious Confederation:
Which being done by my Lord-Liei<t?nant and myfelf^
affijled by fame of the wife ft and bejl affetted Perfons
fare, we foon concluded^ That if thefe Things were
snse pitblijhed, and that they could be believed to be done
by- his Maj e^y's Authority, ih%y could have no lefs fatal
an£ffett than to make all Men^ fo believing, conclude
all the former Scandals caji upon his Majefty, of the
inciting this Irifh Rebellion, true : That 'he was a
Papift and dejigned to introduce Popery, even by Way*
tht mo/1 unkingly and perfidious : and, confequently,
(hat there would be a general Revolt from him of
all good Proteftants with vjhom this Opinisn could take
Pku.

tew

of ENGLAND. 221

Now when we conjidered the Circuniflnnces convinc- An. n Car. f,
ing the Truth of this Transaction on my Lord <?/"Gla- ^ ***V,
morgan's Party and how impojjible almsjl it was * v
far any Man to be fo mad, as to enter into fuch an
Agreement i without Powers from his Majejly ; and
there being fo?ne Kind of a fsrmal Authority vouched
in the Articles themf fives, we did aljo conclude, That
probably the greatejt Pat t of the World, who had no
other Knowledge of his Majejly than by outward Ap-
pearances, would believe this to be true ; and do ac-
cording to that Belief, unlcfs his Majejly were fuddenly
and eminently vindicated by thofe who might jujlly pre -
tend to know him be/L Upon this Ground it ivas alfo
concluded by us, That /efs than an Arrefl of the Earl
of Glamorgan, upon Sufpicion of High Treafon, could
not be a Vindication of his Majejly eminent or loud
enough ; and that this Part could not properly, nor
tffeftually, be performed by any other Perfott than my-
felf, both in regard of my Place and Trujls near his
Majejly: That the Eufmefs of Ireland bad pajpd*
for the mojl Part, through my Hands : That I attend-
ed his Majejly about the Time of the Date of kis Ma-
jelly's pretended Cotnmijfion : That fince that Time I
had, by bis Majejly 's Command, ivritten to the Irifh
CommiJJloners a Letter, whereof I fend you a Copy,fo
diametrically oppofite to the faid Earl's Tranfaftions .-\
And, lafily, in regard that my Lord- Lieutenant, to
whom otherwife. his Majejly s Vindication in this
Kind might properly have belonged, was generally
thought to be unworthily cozened and abufed in the Mat-
ter', in cafe there were any fuch fecret Authority given,
by his Majejly to the Earl of Glamorgan.

This being cur unanimous judgment of what
was fit to he done, and by whom, the only Que-
ftion then remaining was to the Point of Time ;
in which we were alfo of Opinion, That if it were
deferred till the Eufmefs, growing publich otherwife^
jhould begin to work its Mi) chief, his Majejly s Vindi-
cation would lofe much of its Force, and be thought ra-
ther applied to the Notoriety than to the Impiety of the

Thing ;

222 *The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2 1 Car, I. Thing; and rather to the pernicious Effects, than
L l6*5' , to the deteflable Caufe itfclf: Notwithstanding, I mujl
January, confefs unto you, that the Confederation of frujlrating
the Supplies of 3000 Men which were fo confidently
affirmed to be in Readinefsfor the Relief of Chefter, in
cafe the Condition of that Place could not bear the De-
lay which this might occafeon, wrought in us a very
great Sufpenfion of 'Judgment, whether the Proceedings
again/I my Lord of Glamorgan Jhould not be forborne
till that fo necejjary Supply were fent away. But the
Cafe being more ftriftly examined, we found, firft, That,
bytheLardofGlzmoTgan's Oath, the Forces were not
to be hazarded till his Majefty's Performance of the fetid
Earl's Conditions. And, idly, That the faid Supply
was never intended by my Lord ^Glamorgan and the
Irifh, till the AT 'tides cf Peace were consented to \
•which the Lord- Lieutenant durft in no wife do, with-
out a preceding Vindication of the King's Honour, fence
this Tranfaffion of my Lord of Glamorgan's was
known unto him, and known to ''be known unto him, by
thcfe who wanted neither Art nor Malice to make Uje
cfit. So that, the mcejjary Forbearance to conclude
the Treaty fruftrating as much the Relief of Chefter
as the fitdden and vigorous Proceedings againji my
Lord of Glamorgan could do, our Refolutions did
in the End, determine upon that Courfe ; when, at
the Jnflant, to remove all ObjeSiions, Information was
brought us, That the Thing was already public
throughout the Town, and began to work fuch danger-
ous Effects as, in truth, I do not believe that
my Lord- Lieutenant, nor any of the King's faithful
Servants, could have been many Hours fafe in th?
Delay of this his M.bjefty's and their Vindication :
Which has now been fo feafonably applied, as that it
hath wrought here not only a general Satisfaction
in all moderate Men, but even fuch a Converfeon
in many left well-inclined, that whereas, before, a
Peace with the Irifh, even upon thofe unavoidable-
Conditions upon which my Lord- Lieutenant mttft
*fedi witfon few Davs have concluded it, wo'uld

hardly

of E N G L A N D. 123

hardly have been publijhed in this Place without An.»iCar.r.
•very much Danger , Men's Minds are fa fecured end t * ** '___.,
fettled by this Proceeding, as that I believe the Peace januarv.
now would be embraced upon thofe, and perhaps upon
harder Terms, without ?nuch Mutiny or Repining.

This being fo, our chief remaining Fear is, left
what has been done again/} my Lord of Glamorgan
Jhould fo far incenfe the Irifh, as to drive them tn
fudden • Extremes ; Things here, on his MajeJJy's
Part being in fo ill a Condition to enter again upon
a War. Unto this Danger the be/} Preventives we
iould think of are applied; this inclofed Letter,
written to my Lord 0/^Mufkerry by my Lord-Lieu-
tenant ; apt Perfons employed to Kilkenny, to acquaint
them with the Reafons and Necejfities of this
Proceeding ; and, lafily<> the Articles of Peace
fent unto them, with my Lord- Lieutenant' s djfint',
in the very Terms propofed and acquiefced in by them-
.f elves in the la ft Refults of this long Treaty ; which,
in all Probability , will have one of thefe two Ejfec3sy
either to make than conclude a Peace, notwithftand-
ing this intervening Accident, whereby Chefter may
be fpeedily relieved, and his Majejly further fup-
plied this Spring ; or make it break fo foully on their
Side, as to divide from them the moft conjiderable of
their Party.

Jffixtever the Event be> my Lord- Lieutenant and
I Jball comfort ourfelves with this Satisfagion, that
we have done what belonged to Men of Honour,
faithful to their King and to their Religion, and as
wifely as ours and our bejl Friends Under/landing
could direfl us ; leaving the reft to God Almighty*
whom we btfeech to dire ft his Majejly to that Courfe
herein on his Part, whiih may be correspondent to
wr faithful Endeavours \ and that he will blefs them
with as good Effetis upon the Minds of all honejt
Men towards his Majejly 's Vindication in that King"
dom, as I make no Doubt but what we have done
will have in this, when feconded and purfucd by
thofe further Direftiom from his Majejly, which I
tmfure his own JVifdom and princely Indignation
2 t°

224 ¥he Parliamentary Hi

An. 21 Car. I. to find his Honour, Confcience, find Piety, thus infa*
4S< mouJJy traduced, will dilate unto him, without further
Advice from,

Yours
Dublin, Jan. 4. 1645.

GEORGE DIGBY«

P. S. 7 believe you will be as much Jla'rtled as Iwasf
to find the Signet mentioned in my Lord of Glamor-
gan's Tranfattions ; but it feems that was miftaken,
and that he now pretends tofome Kind of Authority un-
der the King's Pocket Seal, which I certainly believe to
'be as falfe as I know the other.

Soon after the Earl of Glamorgan's Commitment,
he wrote the following Litter to his Lady on that
Occafion :

My deareft Heart,

TheEat-lofGU- fHope thefe will prevent any News which Jhall come
morgan's to his ^ unto you of me, fence my Commitment to the Cnjlle
LadXJ ^/"Dublin ; to which, I ajjure thee, I went as chear-

fully and as willingly as they could wife, who f over they
were, by whofe Means it was procured', and Jhould as
unwillingly go forth were the Gates both of the Cajlle
and Town open unto me, until I ^vere cleared, as they
are willing to make me unserviceable to the King, and
lay me afede, who have procured for me this R>Jiraint.
When I confider thee a JVoman, as I think I know you
are, 1 fear lejl you Jhould be apprehenfive j but when 1
refleEi that you are of the Houfe 0/"Thomond, and that
you were once pleafedto fay thefe Words unto me, That
I fhould never, in Tendernefs of you, defift from
doing what in Honour I was obliged to do, I grow
confident that in this you will now Jhew your Ma~
nanimity ; and, by' it, the greatejllejlimony of Affec-
tion that you can pojfibly afford me : And am alfo
confident that you knozv me fo well, that I need not
to tell you how clear I am, and void of Fear, the only
Effe.ft of a good Conference ; ana' that I am guilty 0f
nothing that may teftify one Tho'ught of Dijloyalty to

bh

of E N G L A N D.

£/* MajeJIy, or what may Jiain the Honour of the An- *» Car
Family 1 come of, or fet a Brand upon, my future ,__
Pojlerity. Courage, my Heart ! were I amongjl
fta King's Enemies you might fear j /wf £«'«£• 0w^
tf Prifoner among ft his Friends and faithful Sub-
jetis, you need doubt nothing but that tfris Cloud
ivill be foon diffipated by the Sun/bine of the King my
Majler j and did you but know how well and merry
I am, you would be as little troubled as myfelf, who
have nothing that can afflicJ me, but lejl your Ap-
prehenfions might hurt you ; efpecially fence all this
while I could get no Opportunity of fending, nor yet
by any certain probable Means, but by my Coujin
Bruerton, Mr. Mannering's, our Coujin Conftable
of the Cajlle, and my Lor d- Lieutenant's Leave : And
I hope you and I Jhall live to acknowledge our Obli~
gation to them, there being nothing in this World that
I defire more, than you Jhould at leaji hear from
me : And believe it, Sweet- Heart, were I before the
Parliament in London, / could juftify both the King
and myfelf in what I have done : And fo I pray ac-
quaint my Father, who, I know, is fo cautious that
he would hardly accept a Letter from me ; but yet I
prefume humbly to ask his Elejfmg, and as heartily I
fend mine to pretty Mall j and I hope this Day or To-
morrow will fet a Period to my Bujinefs, to the Shame
of thofe who have been the Occajioners of it. But I
mujl needs fay, from my Lord-Lieutenant and the
Privy-Council here, I have received as much Juftice^
Noblenefs, and Favour, as I could pojftbly expecJ.
the Circumjlances ofthefe Proceedings are too long to
write unto you j but I am confident all will prove
to my greater Honour j and my Right Honourable
Accufer, my Lord Digby, will be at lajl recJi/ied,
and confirmed in the good Opinion which he is pleafed
to fay he ever had of me hitherto, and as the greateft
Affliction he ever had, to do what his Confcience
inforcsd him to ; and indeed did wrap up the
bitter Pill of the Impeachment of Sufpicion of High
Treafon in fa good Words, as that I fitoallowed it
with the grtatejl Eafe in the World ; and it hath
hitherto had no other Operation, than that it hath
VOL. XIV. P purged

The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. *i Car. I. purged Melancholy ; for at I was not at the prefect

l645- any way difmayed, fa have I not fence been any way at

Tanuar all dijheartened : So I pray let not any of my Friends,

that's there, believe any thing until ye have the per-

fett Relation of it from myfelf. And this Requejl I

chiefly make unto you, to whom I remain a mofl

faithful and majl pajjtonately dcvctcd Hujband and

Servant,

GLAMORGAN.

Remember my Service to my Brother, my Coujin
Brown, and the reft of my good Friends.

Many Expreifions in the foregoing Letters feem to
us of fo great Confequence as not to be abridged
without Injury ; but, for Brevity's Sake, we have
contented ourfelves with an Abftra& of the other
Papers, as being mere Matter of Form -, and this
the rather, becaufe they are all printed at large in
the Collections of the Times (a).

* In the Beginning of the Earl of Glamorgan':
treaty, he fets forth the Authority granted him by
Abftraas of other the King, under his Signature Royal, to treat with
' the confederate Roman Catholicks in Ireland, on
fuch Matters as the Lord-Lieutenant cannot at
prefcnt be feen in, as not fit for his Majefty at pre-
fent to own publickly ; wherefore he was to a£t
\vith all poffible, Secrecy : But whatever he engages
for, the King promifes, on the Word of a King
and a Chriltian, to ratify. Dated from Oxford,
March 12, 1644.'

The following Articlej w.ere agreed, Augujl 25*
1645, between the Earl of Glamorgan, in Behalf
of his Majeily and his Succeflbrs, and the Vifcount
Mountgarret, Lord Prefident of the Supreme Coun-
cil of the Confederate Catholicks, and the other
Commilfioners :

1. * That the Roman Religion fhould be pub-

* lickty exercifed in. Ireland,

2. « That the Roman Catholics enjoy all the

* Churches they have poflbilcd at any Time fince
« 0#0for 23, 1641.

3. « That
(a) Vujbandt, Fol. Ed. p. 782 } Rujhvcrtb, Vol. VI. p. 138.

9f E N G L A N D. 22>

3. < That they be exempt from the Jurifdiclion An.»»Cw.I,

* of the Proteftant Clergy, and not molefted for ^ '*4s\ t
« the Exercife of their Jurifdidion over their Ca- j*2CT

* tholick Flocks.

4. * That an Act be pafled in Ireland to repeal

* all Laws, and take off all Incapacities and Penal-
' ties, made againll Roman Catholicks \ fo that

* they not only enjoy the free Exercife of their

* Religion, but be capable of all public Trufts.

5. * That neither the Marquis of Ormond9 or
c any future Lord-Lieutenant, give them any Dif-

* turbance.

6. * The Earl engages the King's Royal Word
' to confirm all thefe Articles.

7. * The Commiffioners {hall engage the Pub-
c lie Faith of the Kingdom to fend 10,000 Men,

* under the Earl, to ferve his Majefty.'

4 Other Articles were alfo figned, wherein the
Earl of Glamorgan covenants, ' That the Roman
« Catholick Clergy (hall for ever hold all fuch
' Lands, Tenements, Tythes, and Hercdiuments,

* by them refpe&ively enjoyed within Ireland fin^e
' October 23, 1641 ; and all other Lands and Emo-
c laments belonging to the Clergy in that King-
c dom, other than fuch as are acluallv enjoyed by

* the Proteftant Clergy: And' the Lords Mount-

* garret and Mujkerry, and the reft of the Council,

* grant, on Behalf of the confederate Catholicks,
' that two Parts in three of thefe Emoluments

* granted to the Clergy, be applied for three Years
4 to theUfe of the Army in his Majefty's Service,
' and only one third Part referved for the Ufe of
4 the Clergy. The like Difpofition to be renewed

* by the Clergy, from three Years to three Years,
4 during the War/

About the Time alfo of the before-mentioned
Battle of Stigo, John Baptiji Rivuccini, the Pope's
Nuncio, and Archbiihop of Fermo9 arrived in the
River of Kilmare, in a Frigate of twenty-ojoe
Guns, with twenty-fix Italians of his Retinue,
befides Regular and Secular Priefts ; bringing, as
was faid, befidcs Apoftolkal Benedictions, fomc
P 2 Arms,

Tfo Parliamentary HISTORY

Arms, Ammunition, and Spaniflj Gold. In ao
knowledgment whereof, the Supreme Catholick
Council made an Addrefs to the Pope, Jan. 7,
rendering him their humble Thanks for fending
'them fo illuftrious a Nuncio, whom they receive
with the higheft Joy, efpecially informing them
of his Holinefs's Affection to them and their Caufe ;
hoping that, by the Support of his Benediction,
Counfel and Afliftance, the Catholick Religion
may be reftored in Ireland.

The King, in order to vindicate himfelf from
fo high a Charge as feemed to arife againft him
from the foregoing Papers, fent another Mejfagc
to the Parliament, which was read in the Houfe of
Lords the 3ift of this Month ; and in which were
contained other Propofals for Peace, as follows :

For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS pre
Tempore, to be communicated to the two Houfes
of Parliament at Wejlminjler, and the Commit-
fioners of the Parliament of Scotland.

CHARLES R.

The Klng'« 7*77 S Majejly having received Information, from
Meflage in Vin- .«•/ fhe Lord- Lieutenant and Council in Ireland,
S?^with ft™" ^at ^3e ^ar^ °f Glamorgan bath, -without his or
ther'propofcliof ^e'ir DirecJions or Privity, entered into a Treaty
Peace. with fame CommiJJioners of the Roman Catholick

Party there, and alfo drawn up and agreed unto cer-
tain Articles with the faid CommiJJioners, highly de-
rogatory to his Majfjly*s Honour and Royal Dignity „
and mojl prejudicial unto the Proteftant Religion
and Church there in Ireland ; Whereupon the faid
Earl of Glamorgan is arrejled, upon Suspicion
of High Treafon, and imprifoned by the faid Lord-
Lieutenant and Council, at the Injlonce and by the
Impeachment of the Lord Digby, who (by reafon of
his Place and former Employment in thefe Affairs)
doth bejl know how contrary that Proceeding of the
faid Earl hath been to his Majejly's Intentions and
Direclions^ and what great Prejudice it might bring

to

of ENGLAND. 229

to I)t3 A if airs, if thofe Proceedings of the Earl of' An. 21 Car. I.

Glamorgan Jliculd be any Ways under/iood to bay: v

been done by the Dire ft ions, Li 'king , or Approbation of
kis Majefiy :

His Majefty having, in his former MefTages for a
Perfonal Treaty, offered to give Contentment to his
two Houfes in the Bufmefs of Ireland, hath now
thought fitting^ the better to fiew his faid Hinfes
of Parliament and the reft of his Subjects in ail his
Kingdoms^ to fend this Declaration to his faid
Honftts, containing the "whole Truth of the Bujinefs }
which is,

That the Ear! <?/" Glamorgan having made Offer
unto him to raife Forces in the Kingdom ^Ireland,
and to conduct them into England for his Majejlfs
Service, had a CommiJJion to that Pzirpofe, and to
that Purpofe only :

That he had no CommiJJion at all to treat cf any
thing elff, without the Privity and Directions cf the
Lord- Lieutenant ; much lefs to capitulate any thing
concerning Religion, or any Property belonging either to
Church or Laity :

That it clearly appears by the Lord- Lieutenant's
Proceedings with the faid Earl, that he had no Notice
at all of what the faid Earl had treated and pretended
to have capitulated with the Irifh, until, by Accident,
it came to his Knowledge.

And his Majejly doth protejl, That, until, fuch
Time he had Advertifement that the P erf on of the faid
Earl (^"Glamorgan was arrejled and retrained, as
is abovefaid, he never heard, nor had any Kind of No-
tice, that the faid Earl had entered into any Jtind of
Treaty or Capitulation with thofe Irifh CommiJJioncrs ;
much lefs that he had concluded or figned thofe Articles
fo dejirufiive both to Church and State, and fo repug-
nant to his Majejly s publick Profejfions, and known
Refolutions.

And for the further Vindication of his Majejly s
Honour and Integrity herein, be doth declare, That
he is fo far from confidering any Thing tontained in

p a thoft

230 *fbe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. fij^fe Papers or Writings framed , by the faid Ear
l6**' t aid thofe Commiffioners with whom he treated, as be
January. d^ abfolutely difavow him therein ; and hath given
Commandment to the Lord-Lieutenant and, the Council
there, to proceed agalnjl the faid Earl, as one -who,
either cut of Falfcnefs, Preemption, or Folly, hath fo
hazarded the Blemijhing. of his Majejlys Reputation
with bis good Subjects, and fo impertinently framed
thofe Articles of his own Head, without the Lonjentt
Privity, or Directions of his Majejly or the Lord-
Lieutenants, or any of his Majejly' 's Council there.
But true it is that, for the r.ecejfaty Prefervation of
his Majejly s Protejlant Subjefts in Ireland, whofe
Cafe was daily repr^fented unto him to be fo djperatey
his Majejly had given Comrr.iJJion to the Lord- Lieu-
tenant to treat and conclude fuch a Peace there, as might
be for the Safety of the Crown, the Prejervation of the
Protejiant Religion, and no way 'derogatory to his own
Honour and public PrcfeJJions.

But to the end that his Majtfty's real Intentions in
this Eufmefs of Ireland may be the more clearly under-
flood, a id to give more ample Satisfaction to both
Houfes of Parliament and the CommiJJiomrs- of the Par-
liament of Scotland, especially concerning his Majejly s
not being engaged in any Peace or Agreement there ;
he doth defire, if the two Houfes Jhall rej'she to admit
of his Majcjlys Repair to London for a Perfonal
Treaty, as was formerly propofed, that fpeedy Notice
thereof be ghen to his Majejly, and a Pafs or Safe-
Conduft with a Blank fent, for a MeJJ'enger to be im-
mediately difpatched into Ireland, to prevent any Acci-
dent that may happen to hinder his Majeflys Refolution
of leaving the Managing of the Buf:nefs of Ireland
wholly to the two Htufis, and to make no Peace there
but with their Confint ; which, in cafe it Jhall pleafe
God to blsfs his Endeavours in the Treaty with Suc-
cefs, his Majejly doth hereby engage himf If to do.

Andfrr a further Explanation of his Majejlys 7n-
tentions in his former Meflag^s, he doth now declare^
That if this perfonal Repair to Londcn, as afonfaid,

Jkall

of E N G L A N D.

jhall be admitted, and a Peace thereon foall enfue, he An.
will then leave the Nomination of the Per/ens to be in-
trujied with the Militia, wholly to his tivo Houfes ;
with fjich Poivcr and Limitations as ane expreffed in
the Paper delivered by his Majgfty's Commijfioners at
Uxbridge, the 6tb of February, 1644, for the Term
cffcven Years, as hath been dejired, tg begin imme-
diately after the Conclujion of the Peace, the difbanding
sf all Forces on bath Sides, and the dismantling of the
Garrifons erecled fince thefe prefent Troubles ; Jo as,
at the Expiration of the Time before-mentioned, the
Power of the Militia^// entirely revert and remain
as before.

And, for their further Security, his Majejly (the
Peace fucceeding) will be content that, pro hac vice,
the two Houfes jhall nominate the Admiral, Officers of
State, and Judges, to hold their Places during Life j
or, quamdiu fe bene gefTerint, which Jhall be bejl
\\ked, to be accountable to none but the King and the two
Houfes of Parliament.

As for Matter of Religian ; his Majejly doth
farther declare that, by the Liberty offered in hit
Meffage of the l$th prefent, for the Eafe of their Con"
fciences who will not cojiniuniqate in the Service already
eftablijhed by Aft of Parliament in this Kingdom, hf
intends that all other Protejlants^ behaving themfelvet
peaceably in and towards the Civil Government, Jhall
hfive tot free Exercise of their Religion, according te
their own IV ay.

And, for the t;tal removing of all Fears and Jta-
loujies, his Maje/ty is willing to agree, That, upon the
C:ncluff)n of Peace, there Jhall be a general AcJ of
Oblivion and free Pardon pa/Jed by AcJs of Parliament
in both his Kingdoms respectively.

And, left it Jbouid be imagined that, in the making
thefe Proportions, his Majejty's Kingdom of Scotland
and his Subjefts there have been forgotten or negletitd,
his Majejly declares, That what is here mentioned
touching the Militia, and the naming of Officers of Sun:
and Judges, /hall tikfivife extend to his Kingdom ef
Scotland.

P 4 Ar,d

The Parliamentary HISTORY

And now, his Majejly having fo fully and dearly
exprejfid his Intentions and Defires of making a happy
and well grounded Peace, if any Person fliall decline
that Happinefs by opfofing of fo apparent a ffay of
attaining it, he will fufficiently demonjlrate to all the
World his Intention and Deftgn can be no other than the
total Subverjion and Change of the antitnt and happy
Government of this Kingdom, under -which the Engliftl
Nation have jo longfiourijhed,

Given at the Court at Oxany the 2gth of y<z-
~ nuary, 1645.

There is a Memorandum entered in the 'Journals^
of fome Blots that were in the original Mejfage of
the King's, now read, and now particularly fpe-
cified : However, it was ordered by the Lords, as
ufual, to be communicated both to the Commons
and the Scots Commiflioners j but with this Decla-
ration, That, to prevent all Mifunderftanding, it
was to be obferved, That thefe Blots were in the Kings
Letter, before it came to their Lord/hips. They or-
dered, alfo, That all the Lords fhould have Notice
to attend the Houfe on the fecond of next Month,
to confider of this laft

We cannot avoid remarking upon this Occafion,
That Lord Clarendon, though he mentions the
State of Ireland in 1641, 2, and 3, yet he takes
no farther Notice of the Affairs of that Kingdom
till 1647 j thus pafling over, in abfolute Silence,
this Charge againft the King, in relation to the
Negotiations of the Earl of Glamorgan ; although,
in the fame Paragraph in which he tells us, * That
it cannot be expected, nor did he intend to men-
tion all the memorable Actions in Ireland (<?), he
yet gives us Reafon to hope we might have found, in
his Hiftory, all fuch Tranfa&ions of that Kingdom
as had immediate Reference to, and Dependence on,
the Differences between the King and the twp
Houfes of Parliament of England. At the fame Time

his

(•) Hiftory, Vol. III. 8va Edit. p. 157.

of E N G L A N D. 233

his Lordfhip declares himfelf in this Manner con- An'j26I Cu' l'
cerning the Charge in general of the King's favour- i * *5' j
ing the Rebels in Ireland, ' I can aver truly, upon januajy.
as good Grounds as ever any Man fpoke the
Heart of another, that the King always looked
upon it as the moft groundlefs, bloody, and
wicked Rebellion that ever poflefled the Spirits
of that People ; and was not more grieved at any
one Circumftance of the domeftic Diffractions,
than as it hindered him from chaftifing and tak-
in Vengeance upon the other, which from hi*
Soul he defired.' But,

We find the following remarkable CommiJJion
granted, in 1644, to the Nobleman whofe Negotia-
tion now lies before us : (a]

CHARLES, by the Grace of God, King of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, &c. to our Right Tru/ty and Right Well-
beloved Coujin Edward Somerfet, alias Plantage-
net, Lord Herbet, Baron Beaufort of Caldecot,
Grifmond, Chepftow, Ragland, and Gower,
Earl ^/"Glamorgan, Son and Heir apparent of our
Entirely beloved Cou/in Henry Earl and Marquis
tf Worcefter, greeting.

HAVING had good and long Experience of And his Com-
your Prowefs, Prudence, and Fidelity, we milTlon to the
do make choice, and by thefe nominate and ap- ' *
point you, our Right Trufty and Right Well- '
bel ved Coulin Edward Somerfct, fisrV. to be our
Generaliffimo of three Armies, Englijh, Irijhy
and Foreign, and Admiral of a Fleet at Sea ;
with Power to recommend your Lieutenant-
General for our Approbation, leaving all other
Officers to your own Election and Nomination,
and accordingly to receive their Commiffions
from you ; willing and commanding them, and
every of them, you to obey as their General,
and you to receive immediate Orders from our-
felf only. And left, through Diftance of Place,

* we

(a} Ctlllni't Peerage of England, V01, I. p. 75.

234 ttc Parliamentary HISTORY

AD. ii Car. I. < we may be mifinformed, we will and command

t_" ]'___j ' you to reply unto us, if any of our Orders fhould

January. ' thwart or hinder any of your Defigns for our

4 Service. And there being great Sums of Money

4 necefTary for the carrying on fo chargeable an

* Employment, which we have not to furnifb you

* withal, we do by thefe impower you to contrail

* with any of our loving Subjects of England, Ire-

* land) and Dominion of Wales, for Wardfhips,
4 Cuftoms, Woods, or any our Rights and Prero-

* gatives } we, by thefe, obliging ourfelves, our

* Heirs and Succe{Tors, to confirm and make good
< the fame accordingly. And for Pcrfons of Ge-
' nerofity, for whom Titles of Honour are moft
' defirable, we have entrufted you with feveral

* Patents under our Great Seal of England, from

* a Marquis to a Baronet, which we give you full
4 Power and Authority to date and difpofe of,
' without knowing our further Pleafure ; fo great
4 is our Truft and Confidence in you, as that

* whatfoever you do contract: for or prcmife, we
4 will make good the fame accordingly, from the

* Date of this our Commiffion forwards ; which,

* for their better Satisfaction, we give you Leave
4 to give them, or any of them, Copies thereof*

* attefTed under your Hand and Seal of Arms.

* And for your own Encouragement, and in To-

* ken of our Gratitude, we give and allow you

* henceforward fuch Fees, Titles, Preheminences,

* and Privileges as do and may belong unto your

* Place and Command above-mentioned, with

* Promlfe of our dear Daughter Elizabeth to your

* Son Plantagcnet in Marriage, with three hundred
4 thoufand Pounds in Dower or Portion, moft
4 Part whereof we acknowledge fpent and Jifbur-

* fed by your Father arid you in our Service ;

* with the Title of Duke of Scmerfet to you and'

* 'your Heirs Male for ever. And from hencefor-

* ward to give the Garter to your Arms, and at

* your Pleafure to put on the George and blue Rib-
1 bon i and for your greater Honour, and in Tefti-

4 mony

of E N G L A N D. 235

* mony of our Reality, we have with our own'*"- *' c^r.r,
« Hand affixed our Great Seal *f England unto ^ f

* thefe our Commifiion and Letters, making them juUmry.

* Patents.

IVitnefs our f elf at Oxford, the firft Day of April,
in the twentieth Tear of our Reign, and the Year
of cur Lord One thoujand Six hundred and
forty-four.

How far all thefe Declaration^ Mejjage^ Letter^
and Commiffions agree with, or contradict, the in-
tercepted Letters from the King to the Marquis of
Ormond, as before given (#), we prefume not to
determine : However, this Affair occafioned a Vote
of both Houfes, for appointing the Lord Lijle, eldeft Vote* of both
Son of the Earl of Lcicefter, and a Member of the H.-ufe« reUting

-, i T i r • /-^ c r lo Ireland.

Commons, to be Lord-Litrutenant-Grtncral of Ire-
land for one whole Year ; that all Treaties with
the Rebel- in that Kingdom fhould be annul-
led ; that the Proiecution of the War againft them
fliould be man; g -d by Parliament ; and that no
Governor be placed th:-re but by their Confent.

Thus much for the Bufinefs of Ireland

Proceed we now with the other Transactions of
Parliament.

The fame Day, Jan. 31 , the Lord Roberts re-
ported the Effect of a Conference lately held with
the Houfe of Commons, c That they, having re- Litters of Cem-
ceived forne Complaints out ot the North concerning P'ailv *esinft tjie
the Scots Army, had thought fit to acquaint their ^North of"
Lordmips with the fame. Accordingly,

A Letter from the Committee in ( umlerland :
Another to Major Cholmley, from the Governor
of CarliJJe : A Third from the Committee at
York: And a Fourth from the Committee rcfid-
ing with the Army before Newark were read.
And, firft, the Letter from thr Committee in Cum"
berland :

To
(a] Io this Voluae^p. 93 to loo.

January. London.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

e Hon. WILLIAM LENTHALL, Efq\ Speaker
of the Hon. -Houfe of Commons in Parliament ',

S I Ry

' D EING well aflured that the High Court of
6 Parliament, in any Exigent of Diftrefs, is as
' well a fure Sancluary for the remoteft as other
< Parts of this Kingdom, our humble Defire is,
' That you will be pleafed immediately to repre-
' fent to the Hon. Houfe of Commons the prefent

* Condition of this poor exhaufted County of Cum-
' berland, in thefe Particulars :

' That notwithftanding the extreme and excef-

* five Charge of the late Leaguer at CarliJJe, far

* beyond the Proportion of this County ; the free

* Quarter ever fince taken by one Regiment of
' Horfe ; large Quantities of Provifions, according
' to the Commanders own Appointment, drawn

* from all the Parts of the County, and, in Augujl
' and September laft, carried into Carlljle^ for the

* Accommodation of the Scots Forces : (not with-

* ftanding the many great Lodes and Detriments

* fuftained by Occafion of the late Incuriion of the

* Enemy, and the conftant Charge of fome other

* Garrifons, necefTarily maintained in this County

* by our Men, befides divers others in the Hands

* of the Scots Commanders) the Governor of Car-
c HJJe hath lately raifed three Troops, which take
« up free Quarter and exact from fome Parifhes
' weekly Provifions and Monies j promifmg them
' Immunity from all Cedes, and prohibiting them

* to pay any Cedes. The Officers of the Qarri-
' fon at Carlifle now likewife force, from neigh-
« bouring Parifhes, their weekly Maintenance ; by
« which we fenfibly difcern a Decay, and find this
« County, efpecially the next adjacent Parts to

* Carlife) not only difabled to perform the Service

* of the new Model, but we are confident thefe
« Parts will alfo, ere long, without fome Refrefh-
' ments, become, in other Refpe&s, ufelefs and

* unferviceable to the Public.

'Now.,

cf ENGLAND. 237

* Now, for that the Want of Pay and necefla- An. n Car. I.
ry Means of Subfiftance is the ufual Pretext of t '*** ,
the Governor, and other Scots Commanders, for January,
their above-mentioned Exa&ions and Seizures ;
for the Removal of all Ground of Diftafte and
Difference, which thefe intolerable Oppreffions
may occafionally enforce betwixt them and us ;
for the Advancement of the common Caufe
which we much defire ; and that this poor County
may be preferred from Ruin, and enabled to con-
tribute its weak Proportion of Service and Af-
fiftance to the Public, we humbly defire that the
Garrifon at at Carlijle may be from elfewhere
maintained and provided for, and this wafting
County fpeedily difburdened thereof; which to
thofe Worthies, who we doubt not but, with a
fympathizing Senfe, look on the Grievances of
each Part of the Body Politic, is moft humbly re-
commended by

Your Honour 's,

In all due Obfervance
Penrlth, Nov. 28,

l645- and Service ) affuredy

W"" BRISCOE. JO. BARWIS.

HEN. TOLSON. MILES HALTON.

A Letter from the Scots Governor of Carlijle.

For my right offered Friend Major CHOLMLEY.

SIR,

H E R E A S it is fignified unto us by my
Lieutenant at * * * *, that ye are about
to exa& Cefs Money out of the Parim of Bramp-
/0«, where one Company of mine lies, I believe
that thefc poor Men are not able both anfwer
you in Cefles, and give free Quarter to my Com-
pany, which of Neccflity they muft have, being,
for any thing I know, all the Pay that may be
expected ; wherefore I could wifh you would for-
bear to exaft Cefs-Money, of any Kind, where

* any

ft». zi Car. I,
,645.

January.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

an Companies of Horfe or Foot are billeted j
but as for the new Model, I am heartily well
content that you levy fuch Men and Horfes as are
to be had in that Parifli, and I {hall be ready to
give my beft Afiiftance to that Purpofe ; but if
any Cefs-Money be exa&ed, ye may well expect:
it (hall be by the ftrong Hand : Yet I could wifh
that, by this, the Correfpondence that hath been
hitherto entertained between you and me be not

c now diflblved. So, expecting your Courtefy

« herein, I remain,

Tour ajjured Friend,

CarLfle, Nov. 21,

1645- Wm. KILHEAD.

A Letter from the Committee at York, addrefied
to the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons.

SIR,

* T>Efides many former PrefTures upon this poor
•^ County, by the quartering of the Scots
Forces here, we hold it your Duty to acquaint
you with one particular Accident, the Con-
fequences whereof we cannot but apprehend with
more than ordinary Perplexity, if not timeoufly
prevented by the Care and Wifdom of the Par-
liament : There were the laft Week certain Of-
ficers, to the Number of 37, pretending them-
felves to be under the Command of Licutenant-
General Lejley, who, being quartered at Tickhill,
offered feveral Abufes to the Inhabitants there,
befides the Exadlions of great Sums of Money,
far beyond the Abilities of thefe poor Men, hav-
ing formerly extremely fuffered many other
Ways. The poorer Sort of the Inhabitants, in
the Senfe of thefe Burdens, without any Order,
rofe together in the Night, feized upon the Per-
fons of thofe Officers, their Horfes and Arms;
and, perceiving them to be fome Englijh, fome
Irijb and French, not daring to carry them to the
Scttis Army to the Lieutenant-General, brought
them to fontffraff, fecured them there, and then

of ENGLAND. 239

acquainted us with the whole A&ion : And for An. n Car. I,
that we were jealous of their Information, that
the Perfons apprehended were not of the Scots
Army, but rajhier fome who, under Colour of
that Pretence, abufed the Country to ferve their
own Ends, we thought it Prudence to fecure the
Men for a Time ; and immediately addrefled our
Letters to the Lieutenant-General of the Scots
Army, and gave Order for the Examination of
the Men in the mean Time ; fince that we find,
by Letters from the Lieutenant-General to the
Governor at Pontefr&fl Caftle, and other Letters^
the Bufmefs hath been refented under other No-
tions than what was intendedk The Inhabitants
of the Town of TickhiH are in extreme Fears,
being threatned with Extremity of Revenge.
The Copies of the Informations we received, as
the Grounds of what we did, and of our Let-
ters thereupon, and of thofe which have come
to our Hand fmce by Occafion thereof,- we hum-
bly prefent to your View and Judgment here
inclofed.

' What other fad Complaints we have had lately
of the Carriage of fome other Forces of that Ar-
my in fome other Parts of this County, we hum-
bly offer by the Copy of a Letter^ come lately to
us by an underftanding Gentleman in this Coun-
ty. We are likewife bold to acquaint you, that
there are two Regiments more of the Scots Horfe
come out of the North into this County, one into
AllertoT.Jhire^ the other into Cleveland, where they
levy Monies in the Country at their Pleafure.
* Sir, we have much to do already to raife Money
for our own Men, by reafon whereof, as well
as the Burden of our own reduced Officers, they
are in continual Mutinies, and ourfelves and the
Country in continual Danger : nor (hall we pof-
fibly be able to provide any Pay for our Horfc,
moft whereof are now marched towards Newark,
nof to raife the Provifions for any of the reft
which we are preparing to fend thither : It is
therefore our earned and humble Suit, that fome

• fpeedy

Jwuarjr.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

fpeedy Courfe may be taken to remove thefe in-
tolerable Burdens from the Country, without
which we mall not be able to raife any Money
for our own Soldiers ; and the People of the
Country will be reduced to fuch miferable Straits,
that we much fear that they will hardly be re-
drained from fome violent Refiftance, for the
eafmg of themfelves.

* It would be a great Grief any thing fhould
fall out that, in the Mifery of this County, fhould
render the Kingdom more miferable than it is ;
and it fhall be our utmoft Care to prevent it ;
in the mean Time, according to our Duty, we
humbly prefent the naked Condition of the Coun
ty before you, to be made known to the Houfe ^
and remain,

York, Jan. zi.
164.5.

Your affettionate Friends *

and humble Servants,

Wm. COPLEY.
AR. INGRAM.
RoB1. LEGARD.
JOHN FARRER.
GEO. TROTTER.
GEO. MARWOOD.

FRA. PIEREPOINT.
EDWJ. RHODES.
WM. LISTER.
THO. St. NICHOLAS,
Rest. BARWIS.

Laftly was read a Letter from the Committee
refiding with the Army before Newark, which
•was alfo addrefled to the Speaker of the Houfe of
Commons.

SIR,

\\7 E have made feveral Addrefles to the Houfe,

** but as yet have not received any Anfwer :
The extreme great Confequence of the Service
againft Newark requires your moft extraordinary
Care ; and the Neceffity is fuch, as it muft be
fpeedy, left it be too late.

' On Saturday laft the Mufter of Horfe, Foot,
and Train of Artillery of the Scots Army were
taken all at one Time by fuch as we appointed,
we ourfelves being prefent. The Horfe were
2 ' above

cf ENGLAND. 241

* above 4000, the Foot near 3000, the Train fmall ; An. zt car. it

* but the Particulars fhall be tranfmitted to you l6*5- ^

* with all Speed. Amongft the Horfe was a Re- va

* giment of the Lord Balcarras's, newly come up^
' and two Troops of the late Colonel Devereux's
' Regiment. We hear of three Regiments of

* Horfe more on this Side Tork^ the Lord Kirkcud-
f bright'*, the Lord Dalboufiis, and Col. Firzell's.

* Thefe Parts are not able to maintain the Num-

* ber of Horfe here already.

' This Day Lieutenant-General Lejlcy met us at

* Nottingham^ and we are yet to expect the Com-
' mittee of Scotland to join with us to order that
' Army. He demands of us Provifions for his

* Forces. We have given him an Account of

* what is done, which thefe Warrants inclofed will

* demonftrate ; and having tendered to pay weekly,

* in Money, 833 /. 6 s. 8 d. to whom he will ap-
' point, being the third Part of 2500 /. the other
' two Parts in Provifions ; which, he faith, can-
' not make his Forces fubfift; but we cannot pof-

* fibly provide more. If you pleafe to alter the
' AflefTment we have made on the Counties, we
' befeech you it may be fpeedily done ; if you ap-
' prove of them, we defire the Houfe to appoint

* fome Perfons immediately, from themfelves, to
<\fee the Provifions fpeedily fent.

' The County of Nottingham can little longer

* call upon you that they may fubfift in their own

* Houfes ; the next Cries muft be at your own
' Doors ; and the Ruin of that County ends not
4 there ; but their Sufferings, and the Horfe lying

* upon Derbyjhire^ if not prevented, renders the
« Public Service to the whole Kingdom againft

* Newark unfeafible. Whatfoever any other Men

* may think or conceive, we on the rlace know,

* too well, Provifions in thefe Counties to be ex-
' haufted, and they cannot be brought from other
« Parts to be effectual.

1 It is our Duty to be thus plain with you ; and

' we doubt not but you, knowing thus much, will

VOL. XIV. Q_ 'provide

242 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. e provide all poffible Remedy; and not, for the

1645. < prefent to be only compafiionately taken, and, af-

* TamTr ' ' ter' to ^et otner Bufmefs retard this which can-

4 not ftay. We prefled the Lieutenant-General

* that 2500 /. weekly, two Parts in Provisions,

* the third in Money, which we offered to pay,
4 might be accepted till Wednefday the 28th of this
' Inftant ; by which Time your Directions might
4 be received, which we afTured him our Letters
4 fhould moft earneftly befeech of you. He would
' have confented to that Time, if he would have

* given our Warrants for a Regiment of Horfe and
4 fome Troopers of his to go into Derbyjhire: This

* we had no Authority to do, and it would have
4 flopped the Provifions aflefled by us on thatCoun*
4 ty for the Scots Army.

4 When we came from London, we were aflured
4 that the Forces from the Eaftern Aflbciation
4 fhould be here before us. A Month is paft, but
' there is not one Man come, nor on their March
4 that we can hear of; and the Mortars ordered by
. l the Committee of both Kingdoms to come from
4 Reading, would, by God's Bleffing, have made
' the ftrong Caftle of Belveir yours before this
4 Day; and thereby i coo Horfe and Foot, now

* there, might have been employed againft New-
4 ark.

4 If the Counties be not able to maintain the Scots
4 Army long where it is, and if you find it diffi-
4 cult to get Provifions from other Places for their
4 Stay there, we know no other Way than, tho*
4 with extraordinary Charge, to finifh this Service
4 fpeedily, Money cannot be more thriftily ex-
4 pended, nor Forces better employed to eafe thofe

* Counties in their Perfons and Purfes. Your be-
4 ing told, when this Letter is read, That Men
4 and the Mortar-Pieces are coming, will not do

* our Bufmefs ; but fome from you muft fee the
4 Men on their March, and the Mortar-Pieces on

* their Way; and certainly, Sir, the Timefpent

* in feeing the Promifes performed en the South

4 Side

^ENGLAND.

* Side Trent, and the relieving the North Side, An.
' will make Newark yours ; and get the Prayers of

' many Thoufands for you, who languifh under jln"<iary7

* the Burden of Mifery.

Grantham, Jan. 19, Your bumble Servants^

W». pfERREPOINT. ED. ASCOUGH.
Wm. ARMYN. THO. HATCHER.

All thefe Letters being read, the Lord Roberts
reported the following Votes made by the Commons
thereupon :

' i. That in the Scots Army, in this Kingdom,
there (hall not be above two Thoufand Horfe and
one Thoufand Dragoons, according to the Treaty.

' 2. That it be referred to the Members of both The Commons
Houfes, that are of the Committee of both King- r^olve t
doms, to communicate this Vote to the Scots Com- Horf^n the
miflioners, and to take Care that the fame be ob- Scots Armytj
ferved accordingly.'

Next was read a Paper from the Scots Commif-
floners, prefented on Occafion of the foregoing Re~
folutions of the Commons.

W

January 6, 1645.

HEN \Ve were expecting that a fpeedy Which occafions
and folid Courfe ftiould have been laid * R«nonft«nce

_•.,-. ,- -p. , . . rrom their Ccm*

down for Maintenance of our rorces, which mifl-loners>
were with fo much Importunity invited by the
Houfes of Parliament to come before Newark^
we hear nothing fatisfactory concerning their
Maintenance ; but are furpriled by the unexpec-
ted Resolutions of the Houfe of Commons for a-
bridging their Number ; which we conceived they
would rather have defired to be increafed, for
the more effe&ual purfuing of that Work they
were firft and laft called unto.
4 The Engagements and Undertakings of the
Kingdom of Scotland for this Kingdom, when
the Parliament was in fuch a Condition, as, we
think, no Prosperity will ever mak? them forget;
Q.2 'the

The Parliamentary HISTORY

* the Time and Seafon of the Entry of thofe FW-

* ces into the Kingdom of England, and their Ac-

* tions and fufferings fithence, which we defire

* may rather be remembered by the Hon. Houfes of
' Parliament} than commemorated by us; and their
c conftant Defires and Endeavours till this Day,
1 amidft their own Troubles, to do the beft Service

* they can to this Kingdom according to the So-

* lemn League and Covenant of both Kingdoms :

* All thefe do forbid us to apprehend any Jealoufies

* to be the Caufe of this Resolution of the Houfe of
' Commons.

* We cannot conceive (whefi the Number of

* our Foot which entred this Kingdom is fo much

* diminifhed, partly by their Sufferings, and part-

* ]y by the neceflary Returning of fome of them in-
' to Scotland, for oppofing thofe who have no other
' Controveriy againft us but our Afliftance given
' to this Kingdom, and cannot be oppofed and per-

* formed by Horfe, but by Foot) that it can either

* ftand with Reafon or Equity, in fuch a Confti-

* tution of Affairs, or with the true Meaning of the
« Treaty, that there (hould not be above 2000
' Horfe, and 1000 Dragoons in the Scots Army in

* this Kingdom ; the fpecifying of which Number

* was, as the Words themfelves do import, that the

* Number fhould not be under it; the Kingdom, at

* that Time, being unwilling to engage themfelves

* for a greater Number than 3000 Horfe and Dra-

* goons ; and not that the Number fhould not be
c above it, which we believe then would have been
' very acceptable ; and, if the prefent Neceffities

* of this Kingdom could have been foreknown,

* would not have been refufed for the future.

c When that the Scots Army did enter this King*

* dom, their Number was about 3000 Horfe and

* 500 Dragoons, and fo continued without any

* Exception to the contrary till Monday laft : And

* when afterwards the Earl of Calendar was invited

* by both Houfes to come up for their Afiiftance,

* his Forces made a further Addition of Horfe.
*•' Aad as,, when the Scots Army did enter into this

' Kingdom,

*f ENGLAND.

Kingdom, there was a Neceflity of great Strength An-
of Foot for oppofing the Enemy, who then had
a very great Infantry ; fo afterwards, when, by January
the Bleffing of God upon the Forces of both
Kingdoms, the Enemies Strength was much di-
miniftied, and they began to increafe the Numi
ber of their Cavalry, and turn themfelves into a
Flying-Army, it was neceflary for the Scots Ar-
my, for their Safety and Security, to increafe
the Number of their Horfe j other wife it had
been altogether impoffible for them either to pur-
fue the Enemy going away, or to preferve them-
felves from being ftarved, for Want of Victuals,
upon their Approach.

c When the Troubles of Scotland were increaf-
ed through the Invafion of the Irijk, while we
were affifting this Kingdom, forne Regiments of
our Foot were called Home for fuppreffing there-
of; but all the Horfe did continue in this King-
dom, with the Approbation of the Parliament,
for oppofmg of the Forces of the Enemy, which
did conftft moft in Horfe ; and did good Service
againft them, in hindering their Recruits, and
preventing their going" Northward upon feveral
Occafions. And we cannot underftand why it
fhould be fubjecl: to Exception now, or that the
Diminution thereof (hould be preffed, y^ey hav-
ing lately exprefled fo great Forwardnefs to en-
gage againft the Enemy ; and fince the Leflening
of their Number could not but render them con-
temptible in the Eyes of their Enemies, and ex-
pofe them to daily Affronts and Injuries, we do
therefore defrre that a fpeedy Courfe may be ta-
ken for their Maintenance ; and that, without
Prejudice to the Treaty, they may be paid ac-
cording to their Mufters, (which (hall never be
denied ) to each Trooper i s. 6d. and to each
Foot-Soldier 6d. whereof two Parts in Provifions,
and a third Part in Money, and Half-pay to the
Officers, which is the leaft can be demanded for
their prefent Subfiftance ; and if' the Houfe of

* Commons

246 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. a i Car. I. Commons {hall be pleafed to inf^ft upon that
t , lo45' j Refolution delivered to us Yeiternight, we fhall
January. communicate the fame to the Parliament of Scot-

land, who, no doubt, will return fuch Atifwer as
(hall be agreeable to the Treaty and the Intereft
and Good of both Kingdoms ; and, in the mean
Time, we do expect that Care ihall be taken
for their prefent Maintenance.'
Sy Command of the Commijjioner; for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland,

JOHN CHIESLEY.

* The Lord Roberts farther reported, That Sir
John Evelyn, upon this, did obferve, That the Foot
in the Scots Army were much abated, and not the
full Number according to the Treaty ; whereupon
the Houfe of Commons had offered to their Lord-
fhips the following Reafons why the Scots Horfe
fhould be reduced to the Number of the Treaty j
viz.

R«fom°forTSh ' By the ^reaty of the 29th of November , 1643,
Redu&on/ " concerning the bringing in of the Scots Army, it
was agreed, That an Army {hould be there levied
forthwith, confuting of 18,000 Foot, effective,
and 2000 Horfe and 1000 Dragoons, effective,
with a fuitable Train of Artillery to march into
England.

' By an Order of this Houfe, bearing Date the
22d Day of June, 1644, it was recommended by
the Committee of both Kingdoms to the Kingdom
of Scotland^ as the Defires of both Houfes, that the
Forces already raifed, and in raifing, by the King-
dom of Scotland, being, as it is reported, about
10,000, be invited forthwith to come in for our
Afliftance.

' After this, that of December the 2yth and
3 1 ft were ordered; befides which feveral Ordinan-
ces were made for the Provifion of the Scots Army
in general, by Afleffment on the feveral Counties,
and Imposition upon Coals at Newcajlle^ but ne-
ver any Diftinction made of the firft and fecond

Army :

of E N G L A N D. 247

Army: Likewife 7000 /. upon the Coals at New- An. 21 Car. I.
caftle, and 3000 A upon the Excife in all the L l6+5-
Northern Counties, except the Excife upon Flefti
and Salt in thofe Counties, and of Hull.

' The Refolve of the Houfe of Commons was
not for the abridging the Number of the Scots For-*
ces, but for reducing the Number of Horfe to that
directed by the Treaty : And, as they (hall never
forget the Engagements and Undertakings of that
Kingdom for this ; fo they are confident that Na-
tion will remember the firft and great Teftimony
of brotherly Affection, which was giyen them by
this Parliament of Englqnd.

' That the Kingdom of Scotland could not fend
any Forces into this Kingdom without our Conr
fent ; and therefore what Number faever was
agreed on by both Kingdoms was binding, and
ought not to be exceeded.

* We do not know what the Number of Horfe
was, which firft came into this Kingdom ; nor
that, when the Earl of Calendar's Horfe came into
this Kingdom, the whole Force of the Scots Horfe
then in England did exceed the Number of the firft
Treaty ; confidering that, in that Time, many of
the firft Horfe were probably diminished,

' As no Force ought to have been brought into
this Kingdom without our Confent, fo no Altera-r
tion ought to have been made in the Condition of
thofe Forces without our Approbation.

c That as it might feem reafonable to them to
increafe their Horfe, when the Service required it ;
fo, upon the fame Reafon, that Service being now
inoft for Foot, they ought to be reduced to the
Number of the Treaty.

' That, for the Security and. Preferyation of
their Army, we did feveral Times fend great Parr
ties of Engli/h Horfe to that Army ; although the
Body of the Scots Horfe did march out of England
into Scotland without our Privity or Confent.

4 That thefe Reafons were intended as an An-
fwer to that Part of the Scots Commiflioners Paper
which concerned the fupernumerary Horfe in that

0.4

248 *fhe Parliamentary HISTORY

Car. I. Army, to which they defired their Lordfhips Con-
currence, as alfo to the following Order :

* Ordered by the and Commons aiTembled

par]jamentj tnat jt fce referred to the Members
of both Houfes, that are of the Committee of both
Kingdoms, to confer with the Scots Commiflkmers
concerning that Part of their Paper of the 6th of
January laft, which concerns their fupernumerary
Horfe ; and to offer unto them the foregoing Rea-
fons9 why their Horfe fhould be reduced to the
Number of the Treaty; and fuch other Reafcns as
they fh'all think fit, for Maintenance of the Vote of
the Houfe of Commons on- the 5th of this Inftant
January^ That in the Scots Army in this Kingdom,
there Jhall not be above 2COO Horfe> and 1000 Dra-
goons, according to the Treaty.'

The Lords, after Debate, ordered this Report
concerning the Sccrts Army to be taken into Con-
federation on the Monday Morning next, the firft
Bufinefs.

But before this Affair came on, another Con-
ference was reported to the Lords, the Effecl of
which was, That the Houfe of Commons having
taken into Confederation divers of the King's Let-
ters, efpecially his laft ; they thought, if fome-
thina; was not prefently done, the Parliament might
fuffer fome Prejudice, in regard of the fpecious
Pretences in that Letter ; therefore the Commons
had collected fome Proportions for Peace out of the
Bulk of the whole, to be prefently tent to the
King ; the reft to be difpatched as foon as they
conveniently might.

To which the The Numbers and Titles of thefe Proportions
Lords agree. \vere then read, and the Rtjoluticns of the Com-
mons upon them ; but the further Confederation

of them the Lords deferred to the next Day.

Then that Houfe proceeded to confider of the

Papers lately reported from the Conference with

the Houfe of Commons, concerning the Scots

4 Horfe j

of E N G L A N D. 249

Horfe ; and the Queftion being put, * That, in An« « Gar. r.

* the Scots Army in this Kingdom, there (hall v___ *645' t
5 not be above 2000 Hoffe, and 1000 Dragoons, February.

* according to the Treaty ;' it was refolved in the
Affirmative, the following Peers diflenting; the
Earls of Lincoln, EJ/ex, Suffolk, Bolingbroke', War-
wick, and Manchefter ; the Lords Roberts, Wil-
loughby, Berkely, Bruce, and Dacres.

Next the foregoing Order brought up from the
Commons was read : But it was refolved, upon
the Queftion, not to agree with them in that Order.

The fame Day the Commons took into Confi- Refblutions of
deration the King's Letter again, and came to the the Commons

r 11 • n /•/ • .° on the King's

following Refolutions upon it : Letter

1. ' That the King's Letter hath given no Sa- the Negotiations
tisfa&ion touching the Lord Herbert's Authority to with the IrUh
negotiate with the Rebels in Ireland. e s< &c*

2. * That a Copy of the Privy-Seal, and Ar-
ticles taken in the Bifhop of Tuam's Carriages,
fhall be fent to the King ; with the Anfuoer to this
laft Letter.

3. ' That, To-morrow Morning, the firft Bu-
fmefs peremptorily, the King's laft Letter fhall be
taken into further Confideration : And that Mr.
Speaker put the Houfe in mind thereof.' Accord-
ingly,

Feb. 3. The Commons made the following Or-
ders and Refolutions thereupon :

1. ' That it be left to the Committee that fliaH
be appointed to prepare an dnjwer to this Letter,
to obferve the Contrarieties in this Letter to the
King's former Profeffions and Proceedings, con-
cerning Ireland; and to the Declaration he now
holds forth, in this Letter, of leaving the War and
Peace of Ireland to the Houfes of Parliament.

2. ' That the Committee, in the Anjwer to'this
Letter, fhall take Notice of the King's avowing
the granting a Commiffion for railing and bringing
over of Rebels out of Ireland, to fight againft the
Parliament of England,

3. ' That

The Parliamentary HISTORY

250

An, ai Car. I. 3. « That, in this Anfwer, the Committee (hall
take Notice both of the Uncertainty of the Claufe
concerning the Militia^ and that it is conditional :
And that, in Anfwer to it, the Houfes are fending
a Propo/ition, which does fully exprefs their own
Defires.

4. « That, as to the Claufe of the General Of-
ficers and Judges, the Anfwer {hall take Notice,
That, in due Time, the Houfes will prefent fuch
Things unto his Majefty as fhall be convenient
thereupon.

5. ' That this Letter of the King's gives no Sa-
tisfaction in point of Religion.

6. * That a Committee be appointed to prepare a
Declaration^ upon this Letter and the other Letters
of the King, for the undeceiving of the People.'

Feb. 4. The Scots Commiffioners prefented ano-
ther Complaint to the Lords, of the Har-dfhips
their Army fuffered before Newark :

For the Right Hon. the SPEAKER of the. Houfe of
PEERS pro Tempore.

My Lords,

IT is above two Months fmce the Scots Army
did, according to the Defires of both Houfes,
come ibefore Newark ; where, after the taking
of MuJkham-Bridgey they have, in the greateft
Extremity of Weather, continued in very bard
Duty on the one Side, and alfo affifted Colonel
Poyntz on the other ; and yet no effectual Courfe
is taken for their Entertainment, but the Burden
thereof hath been left upon thefe Parts of the
County which formerly have been wafted and
exhaufted by the Enemy. This gives Occafion
of Complaint, from the People, of Wants and
Diforders in the Army ; and greater Inconveni-
ences may enfue, if not fpeedily prevented. We
were in good Hopes that, when the Commiffion-
ers of both Houfes did repair to that Army, a
fpeedy Courfe would have been taken for their

* IvLunten-

The Scots Com-

rnirfioners Com-
plaint of Want of
Pay for their
Army before
Newark.

of E N G L A N D. 251

* Maintenance, efpecially after the Mufter; but An- 2I Car«
' as yet there hath been offered only an inconfide- t 1 *5'

' rable Proportion, which is no ways fufficient to February.

* afford them Subfiftance ; and fome of the Pro-
' vifions are appointed to be brought out of Lan-
' cajblre^ and other Places far diftant, upon which
' the Army cannot depend for Relief.

* The Foot Soldiers have not received eighteen-
c penny-worth of Provifions weekly fince their
' coming before Newark ; and when the Quarter-
' Mafter-General, who is now the fecond Time

* fent hither on Purpofe to reprefent the Necefli-
' ties of the Army, did come from thence, there
' was not ten Pounds Worth of Proviiions in the
' Magazine for the whole Army. If any fhould,
' in the Winter Seafon, be put to hard Duty, and
' the Means of Subfiftance {hall be with-held
' from them, it is eafy to conjecture that nothing

* can follow but their inevitable Ruin before the
' Spring.

4 We have, from Time to Time, conftantly
' folicitsd the Hcufes of Parliament for their Main-

* tenance ; and we are afhamed that our many ear-
' neft Defires, in their Behalf, have not prevailed
' with the Houfes for fuch an Anfwer as might
' have enabled us to have given a good Account
4 of our Endeavours to thole that fent us ; and, in
' fome Meafure, give Satisfaction to the crying
' Neceilities of the Soldiers, who are refolved to
' decline no Duty, nor Danger, that may advance
' the Service they are now engaged in at the Defire
' of the Houfes : It is therefore again our earneft
' Requeft to the Houfes of Parliament, That they

* would ferioufty lay to Heart the providing for
' that Army, and that they would extend the fame

* Care to them as they do to their own Forces on

* the other Side of Newark^ and grant unto them
' the fame Allowances in Money and Provifions,

* that both may be enabled to profecute the Public

* Service ; which Things being performed, we do,

* in their Names, undertake that as ftrict Order

* and Difcipline (hall be obferved there as ever

« hath '

Parliamentary HISTORY

* hath been in any Army within thefe Kingdoms >

* and, earneftly intreating you for a fpeedy Anfwery
' we remain

Your Lordjhips

WorceJttr.Houfe,

Feb. 3, 1645. Affeftlonate Friends,

and bumble Servants^

LAUDERDALE.
BALMERINOCH.
H. KENNEDY.

CbeSer taken ^' 7" ^ ^E7 °^ Thankfgiving was appointed

for the giving up the ftrong City of Ckejler to the
Forces of the Parliament. All the Minifters with-
in the Lines of Communication, and ten Miles
round them, were ordered to have timely Notice
of this ; to the end they might ftir up the People
to a due Thankfulnefs both for the Seafonablenefs
and the Greatnefs of the Mercy.

A long Remonftrance, by way of Petition, from
the City of London, was prefented to the Lords
and read ; the main Drift of which was to defire
the Parliament, in their new Proportions for Peace,
to take Care of their particular Interefts ; efpe-
cially that the City Militia, with thofe of the
neighbouring Counties, might be eftablifhed in
their Hands. All which will appear more fully in
the Sequel.

*fee/. per An. An Ordinance of Parliament was this Day read
fctkd on Gene- jn tne Houfe of Lords, and agreed to, for fettling
"""• Eftates, to the Value of 25007. a Year, on Oliver
Cromwell, Efq. Lieutenant-General of the Horfe;
as an Encouragement to him and others who {hall
difcharge the like faithful Services to the Public.
Part of the Lands thus fettled were the Marquifs of
Warctfter'sj Lord Herbert's, and Sir John Somer-
fet's, his Sons, fituate in Hampjhire ; and the reft
were made up out of the forfeited Eftates of other
Noblemen, who had adhered to the King againft
the Parliament.

^ENGLAND. 253

Feb. 9. The Stots Commiflioners again addref- An. « car. I.
fed the Lords, for an Anfwer to their laft Reman- l645-
jlrance of the miferable State of their Army before Febr '~'
Newark; or whether they were to expect any
Anfwer at all ; that otherwife the Meflenger fent
from the Army might come back, and they knew
what Account to return to thofe who fent them.

Feb. ii. The Earl of Warwick prefented a Lift
of Ships, belonging to the Navy of England,
defigned for the next Summer's Expedition ; &
which fmce it fhews the great Force the Parlia-
ment were then Matters of at Sea, we fubjoin as
follows :

King's Ships, Commanders, Tons, Men, Guns.

St Andrew, — — William Batten, 1 0 ,

Vice-Admiral, j 783 *6o 5°

Rainbow, Tho.Trenchfield, 1

Rear-Admiral, j 73' 240 44

James, • • Richard Blythe, fen. 87; 260 50

Unicorn,. . Peter Andrews, 703 250 46

Victory, Benjamin Crandley, 721 226 44

Charles, Richard Swanley, 793 260 50

Leopard, Henry Bethell, 515 1 50 40

Convertine, John Mann, 619 180 40

Lion, Rob. Moultan, fen. 600 170 45

Garland, — — — John Bowen, 567 170 40

Bonadventure, Walter Maynard, 557 170 36

Entrance, • John Crowther, 539 160 40

Antelope, Edward Hall, 512 160 36

Swallow, •• • William Somerfter, 478 15^0 36

Expedition, ——— Sir George Aflcew, 360 100 26

Providence, — — John Staynfby, 360 100 22

John, — • ' ' William Swanly, 366 no 28

Fellowfhip, ——— William Penn, 366 no 28

Globe, . Rich. Willoughby, 333 126 28

Mary-Rofe, — — Phineas Pitt, 321 100 28

Warwick, •• " James Peacock, 300 90 20

Hector, . Edward Elliot, 266 80 22

Cygnet, William Peak, 233 70 18

Sampfon, • • John Pilgrim, 300 60 22

• •'• « Anthony Young, 200 60 17

Carritd over -^— — — 3796

King t

254 <^)e Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I. Kings Ships. Commanders, Tons, Men, Gunt.

l64S; , Brought over 3796

_ , v Star, -*— Robert Con ftable, 200 60 16

rcbruriry. .^ . . t i_ /~ •

Greyhound, — — John Coppin, 120 50 12

Roebuck, • 149 40 —

Crefcent,— — — — John Edwyn, 167 50 12

Dove, William Hazard, 84 256

Tenth Whelp, William Laurence, 186 60 18

Kentifh Frigate,— John MiJdmay, 149 45 -—

Rupert, William. Rowe, 133 40 9

Welcome Pink,— John Green, 133 40 10

Increafe, llob. Moulton, jun. 133 46 —

Trial, • Robert Browne, 100 40 10

Royalift, Owen Coxe, 100 40 —

Charles, •• Robert Clerk, 50 20 6

Green Frigate,-— John Farmer, — 20 6

WeymouthFrigate, John Pierce, — - 40 —

Lilly Frigate, John Lambert, 80 45 8

Swan Frigate, Robert Clarke, — 50 —

Nicodemus, — — Thomas Pury, So 45 10

Total of Men 4546

Mercbatit-Shrps,

Commander S)

Tons, Men, Guns.

Conftant Warwick,

John Gilfon,

309

96

26

Difcovery, •

Thomas Plunkett,

35°

IOO

28

True Love,

Jer. Coachman,

260

78

22

Prefident Frigate, -

Peter Whitley,

250

80

26

Harry,

John Ellifon,

300

QO

24

Ark, •• - - i. i

Robert Bramble,

200

60

16

Magdalene,

John Hofier,

200

56

16

Defiance, — — —

John Whitley,

3CO

9°

26

Thomas and Lucv

260

Urt

Moorcock,

Robert Philpot,

zuo

140

oO

44

2O

10

Samuel,

Edward Seymor,

280

75

24

Joffelin,

James Moulton,

196

59

16

Lucy, -••

Elias Drew,

140

48

12

Hopewell,

Benjamin Trueman,

9°

33

10

Meffenger, -

Thomas Scale,

120

40

IO

Delight,

Thomas Wilts,

74

Hedor,

' Parkhurft,

3OO

7°

20

Bleffing, i

Wenold,

220

60

18

Total of Men—

1233

cf E N G L A N D. 255

Memorandum^ Befides his Majefty's Ships be- An. ai Car. I.
fore named, Order is given, by the Committee of
Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and Cinque
Ports, that all other ferviceable Ships of the Navy
Royal be graved, and fitted to go forth to Sea
upon any fudden Exigent for the Defence of the
Kingdom : And that the Matters, Wardens, and
Afliftants of Trinity-Houfe (hall give Order for
graving and fitting for Sea, thirty other able Mer-
chant Ships that may be alfo ready to be fent forth,
upon any emergent Occafion, for the Kingdom's
Safety.

Feb. i ?. The Parliament having voted a Recn-

f TT f ii i o- <rr*; is • f i r • -f Eftimate of the

ment of Hone, called bir Thomas Fairfax s Life- charge of a Re-

Guards9 ufelefs^; on applying to the General firft, giment of Fkc-
to have his Confent, they were difbanded, and a locks*
Regiment of Firelocks ordered to be raifed and
formed in their ftead. There is an Eftimate en-
tered in the "Journals of the whole Charge per
Month, of maintaining fuch a Regiment ; which
may give the Reader a Notion of the Expence of
a whole Army at that Time, and ferve as a Con-
traft to the State of the Marine before given.

A LIST of the daily and monthly Pay of 500 Fire-
locks, with Officers nesejjary for the fame , for the
the General 's Guard j with the Pay of the Offi-
cers^ according to the Entertainment of the Foot-
Offien in the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax.

GENERAL OFFICERS.

per Diem. per Menfem.

I. s. d. I. s. d.

Major, — — 090 12 12 o

Quarter-Mafter, — 050 700

Provoft-Marflial, — 050 700

Surgeon, — — 040 5120

130 32 4 o

Three

An.

February-

Parliamentary HISTORY
Three Companies of FIRELOCKS.

per Diem.

per Menfem.

I. s. d.

I.

3.

d.

Captain, - - - - o 15 o

21

0

0

Lieutenant, - — 040

5

12

0

Enfign, - - - 030

4

4

0

Two Serjeants, at
I s. 6d. each,

030

4

4

o

Three Corporals 'j
and two Drums, j> o 5 o
at i s. each, j

7

o

0

i oo Soldiers, at I*. 1

each, I

140

0

0

6 10 0

182

o

0

According to which

Rate the Pay of

four fuch Com-

panies, each con-

26 o o

728

0

o

fifting of 100

Men, exclufive

nf Officers «•

32 10 o

910

o

o

General Officers, 130

3*

4

0

Sum Total — 33 13 o

942

4

0

to be refpited

upon the Public

Faith, accord-

ing to the Ordi-

030

4

4

0

nance, one third

of the Major's

•

Pay, which is

Carried over 064

268

8 17 8

Brouglrt

*f £ N G L A N D. 257

per Diem per Menfem An. 21 Car. I.

Brought over 064 8174 l6*5* ^

And half Pay of j "^clr^"

each of the five I

Captains, at yj. J. i 17 6 52 10 O

6 d. each per
Diem.

2 3 10 61 7 4

But to take oft fome Part of the exceffive Charge
of keeping fo many Armies on Foot, a Vote had
been palled by both Houfes, for reducing the
fupernumerary Horfe in the Scots Army to the
Number agreed on by the firft Treaty, which was
2000 Horfe and iooo Dragoons, as already ob-
ferved.

The Parliament had ho Very material Bufmefs
before them for fome Days, except we mention
the new Proportions for Peace , which were ftill
carrying on in Die ad Diem, and many Confe-
rences were held betwixt the two Houfes about
them, tod tedious here to mention : We (hall
therefore poftpone this Affair till we come to th«
Refult of them all.

A Difpute arofe alfo between the two Houfes
afoout a new Ordinance for Martial Law ; which
the Commons had fent up, and the Lords would
not pafs in the Manner and Form they had fent
it : This Affair occafioned feveral Conferences ;
the Lords arguing, That this new Law ftruck at
feveral of their Privileges ; and concluded with this
ancient Adage, Nolumus Leges Angtia mutari.
The Commons were as refolute on their Side, fo
that nothing was yet concluded on between them,
as to this Bufmefs.

The great Succefs of Sir I7jomas Fairfax's Ar-
my in the Weft of England^ induced the Parlia-
VOL. XIV. R meat

The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. *i Car. I. ment to appoint a Committee of Members of the
'645- Houfe of Commons to go down into Devonjbire
*— • and Corn-wall; for whofe Djre&ioh the following

ruary* Jnjlrufiions were agreed on by both Houfes. The
Names of thefe Commiffioners were Sir John
Bampfield and Sir John Narthcoie, Barts. Sir Sa-
rtiuel Rolle, Sir Edmund Fovutll^ and Sir John
Toung) Knts. Francis Bullery jfnthony Nicholly
Francis Godolpbiny Richard Erifey, and Thomat
l) Efquires.

s ef * \7 O U are apt to repair, with all convenient
the Commons to ' j[ Speed, into the faid Counties of Devon
their Committee * and Cornwall, or either of them. /

7°"'

* by have full Power and Authority, within the

« faid Counties of l)evon and Cornwall^ to do and
' execute all fuch Matters and Things, as any

< Committee within the Wejlern Aflbciatioh may

* or can do and execute, by virtue of any Autho-

* rity granted them from both Houfes of Parlia-

* ment.

} You, or any three or more of vou, are here-

* by enabled to call before you fucn of the Inha-
' bitants of the faid Counties of Devon and Corn-

< wall as you fhall think fit ; and to take Infor-
4 mation from, and advife with them, and any of

* them, concerning the better and more perfect

* fettling the {aid Counties in their Obedience to

* the Parliament J and the more eafy and indif-

< ferent Raifmg of conftant Pay for the Soldiers of

* thofe Counties* and the cutting off all unnecef-

< fary and fuperfluous Charges.

' You are to vifit, view, and examine the State
' of the Garrifons within the faid Counties ; and

* to confi-Jer what conftant Force is neceffary to

* be raifed and maintained for their Defence j what
« the monthly Pay of the faid Force will amount

* unto; how the feme may be raifed ; and what

* Garrifons will be fit to be continued.

' That there be no Want of Provifions and

* other NecefTaHes for the Army now in thofe

4 1 arts,

^ENGLAND, 259

* Parts, you are hereby authorifed to fend War- An. 2I Car.
4 rants, under the Hands of any three or more of ^

4 you, into the faid Counties of Devon and Corn- February?
' tt/0/7, for the furnifhing of Provifions and other

* Neceflaries for that Armyj as need {hall re-

* quire.

' You are likewife to endeavour that all Pro-

* viiions and other Neceflaries, provided by your
' Care, be fo ordered, that Account may be made
4 what is taken j to the end that fuch Provifions
4 may be difcounted upon the Pay of the faid
4 Forces.

' You are to take Care that the feveral OreR-

* nances of Parliament be put in due Execution
4 againft Papifts and Delinquents^ notwithftand-
'- ing any Protection whatfoever.

' That when the faid Counties, or any Part of

* themj {hall be reduced to the Obedience of the
c Parliament, you fliall take Care that the Ordi-

* -nance for the Directory be put in Execution in
4 all Parifties within the faid Counties of Devon.

* and Cornwall : And you {hall take further Care
4 that the Juftices of the Peace do fwear Conftables
c and other Officers, being able and well-affe&e4

* Perfons, in the room of thofe who have been
4 formerly employed by the Enemy, and have pro-
4 mo ted their Service.

' Of all emergent and incident Things, as coine
4 not within the Compafs of thefe Injirtiftions,
4 and yet do or may concern the Welfare of the
4 faid Counties, or the State in general, you are to
4 certify both Houfes, or the Committee of Lords
4 and Commons for the Wrjlern Affectation. Pro-

* vided that no Power hereby granted, or intend-"
4 ed, fhall extend to the leiFening or diminHhing
4 any Power formerly granted to Sir Thomas Fair-

* fax. General.'

Feb. 20. The Speaker of the Houfe of Lords
acquainted them, That the Scots Commiflioners had
delivered to him two Letters, from the Parliament

R 2 Of

260 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I« of that Kingdom, with aDefire to be communicated
._ ^j to both Houfes, which were read :

febrnary. R.^t HomurM^

Two Letters * "T~° H E Eftates of Parliament of this Kingdom

from the Scots < 1 have confidered the Defires of the Honour-

^ STsettk- ' able Houfes» concerning the Garrifons placed by

ment of church- * the Scots Army in the Towns and Caftles of Car-

Government, « /^ Newca/lle, Ttnmouth, Hartlepool, Stockton,

Iheir Amy" &c. * Warhvorth, and Thirlwal, exprefled in the Let-

' ter of the I4th of November laft ; and have fent

' Inftru&ions to their Commiffioners to give fuch

' an Anfwer to the Honourable Houfes, as they are

* confident may ferve moft for promoting the Caufe

* wherein both Kingdoms are fo highly engaged,

* and carrying on the War to the beft Advantage.

* They have further given Direction to their

* Commiffioners to make known to the Honourable

* Houfes, the earned Defires of this Kingdom for

* the fettling of Religion and Church-Government,
' (which as it was the principal Ground of their

* Engagement in this Caufe, fo will the Perfecting

* of it be their chiefeft Joy, and Glory of both

* Kingdoms) and their Propenfion for carrying on
' the War with the united Affection and Forces of

* both Kingdoms, and that no good Means be left

* uneflayed for attaining a firm and lafting Peace ; it

* being the conftant Refolution of this Kingdom,

* againft all Oppofition, to ftrengthen and cherifli
' the Unity and brotherly Kindnefs between the

* Kingdoms ; and, Peace fettled with Truth, and

* thefe Things performed by the Honourable Houfes,

* (which by the Treaty they are obliged unto) to
f recall the Scots Army, with as great Alacrity as

* they were ready to fend the fame into England Tor

* the Affiftance of their Brethren.

' The Inconftancy of the Weather in this Sea-
c fon hath been an Impediment to the Paflage be-
' twixt this and Ireland, fo as they have not yet had
' an dnfwer to their Letter fent thither concerning
« Belfafli but they have commanded their Com-

* mittec

gf ENGLAND. 261

* mittee to return Anfwer to the Honourable An. 21 Car. I.

* Houfes in that Particular, how foon they {hall l645*

* receive Information concerning the fame. I ^a

Your affeftionate Friend

St. Andrew? tt

Feb. 3, 1 645. and humble Servant,

CRAWFORD and LINDSAY,
Prefident of Parliament*

The other Letter was from the fame to the fame,
and bore Date the fame Day.

Right Honourable,

AS the Parliament of this Kingdom doth ac-
knowledge the Zeal and Endeavours of the
Honourable Houfes of Parliament, for the good
Progrefs already made towards Reformation of
Religion, and Uniformity of Church -Govern-
ment : So it is expected, that (when they {hall
ferioufly confider the brotherly Affe&ion and great
Sufferings of this Kingdom, who, from a peace-
able Condition which we formerly enjoyed, did
engage ourfelves in a dangerous and bloody War
with England againft their Enemies, when their
Affairs were in the hardeft andloweft Condition,
upon a mutual League and Coi>enant,to fettle Reli-
gion and Church-Government according to the
Word of God, the Praftice of the beft Reformed
Churches, and as might draw the neareft Uniformi-
ty betwixt the two Kingdoms, which was acknow-
ledged to be the chief Ground of craving Aid and
Afliftance from this Kingdom) the Honourable
Houfes will now, after fo mature Deliberation^
add their Authority zuid Civil Sanction, without
further Delay, to what the pious and learned
Aflembly of Divines, upon mature and accurate
Debates, have advifed to be mcft agreeable to
the Word of God j and perfect what remains to
be done in the Work, according to the Covenant ;
which I am commanded by the Parliament o£
R 3 • this

262 7be Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2i Cv. I. < this Kingdom to demand, and do accordingly, in

***4S ' their Names, demand of the Honourable Houfes

February. ' °f Parliament of England: The Performance

* whereof will be moft acceptable to this Kirk and
' Kingdom, as a fpecial Recompcnce of the La-
' hours and Blood which hath been fhed in affift-
' ing you to prpmote the Caufe of God ; and will
' be a Means to procure God's Bleffing upon the

* Proceedings and Undertakings of both Kingdoms.
' And the Parliament of this Kingdom is perluaded,
' that the Piety and Wifdom of the Honourable

* Houfes will never admit Toleration of any Se£ts

* or Schifms, contrary, to our folemn and facred

* Covenant.

' The next Defire of the Parliament of this

* Kingdom (and which of all Things next to Truth

* is moft deferable) is, That all lawful Means be
' ufed for attaining a juft and well-grounded Peace:
f For which End I am commanded to defire, and do

<( accordingly, in the Name of the Parliament of

* this Kingdom, defire, That the Propofetions of
f Peace, be difpatched to his Majefty ; and may be

* fo purfued and managed as may beft procure the
' fettling of Truth and Peace, that there may be
c an End of the great Diftraclions and unnatural

* War of all the three Kingdoms.

c This Kingdom lieth under the Burthen of great

* and vaft Expence in raifmg and entertaining Ar-
' mies ; and hath, with the Lofs of the Lives of
' many precious Men, fet their own Houfes on Fire
' to quench the Flame of yours, and almoft de-

* ftroyed their own Nation to preierve yours. And

* feeing the feafonable Afliftance afforded by this
' Kingdom to you, and by the late SuccefTes where-

* with God hath bleffed your Armies, you are in

* a great Meafure freed of your Trouble ; and are
' in a far better Capacity to pay the Money due to

* our Armies in England and Ireland, than you
« were at any Time fince the Beginning of thefe

* Wars ; I am likewife commanded by the Par-

* liament of this Kingdom to demand, and accord-
*, ingty do, in their Name, demand of the Ho-

?. nourabl*

of E N G L A N D, 263

4 nourable Houfes of Parliament, to make Pay- An. »i Car. I.

* ment, before the third of May next, of the Sums '^45-
' of Money duly owing by them to this Kingdom, reb*UJir

* and their Armies in England and Ireland^ accord-
c ing to the Treaties betwixt the two Kingdoms ;

* the Account whereof will be given in by our
' Commiffioners, that this Kingdom may be there-

* by relieved of the great Burthens and Preflure?

* of our Debts contracted in this Caufe, and be en-
' abled and encouraged for joint carrying on of the

* War, till the Church of God be fettled in Purity

* and Peace.

' And it is further craved from the Juftice of the

* Honourable Houfes of Parliament, That they

* will take into their ferious Confideration the great

* Lofles fuftained by this Kingdom at Sea, thro*
' the Non- Attendance of their Ships upon our
' Coafts, according to the Treaty^ and make Re-
' paration thereof; and of the Lofles which Scotr
' land hath fuftained by the Irijh Invafion, which

* the Kingdom of England is bound to fupprefs by

* the large Treaty. In all which the Defires of the

* Parliament of this Kingdom are no other than,

* That Religion and Church-Government may be
' fettled according to our Covenant: That the War

* may be carried on with brotherly and conftant

* Affection, by the joint Councils and Forces of

* both Kingdoms : That a well-grounded and du-

* rable Peace may be endeavoured betwixt the King
' and his Subjects : That Payment may be made

* of the Sums due to this Kingdom an<£ our Armies

* by Treaty $ and that (againft the Malice of our

* open Enemies, and fecret Plots of fuch as, for their

* own Ends, are labouring to fow Sedition betwixt

* Brethren tied by (o many Relations) mutual Ar
' mity and Union between the Kingdoms may be

* ftrengthened and perpetuated to all Pofterity.'

[Subfcribed as before.]

F«b. 24. A Vote of the Houfe of Commons was
brought up to the Lords for their Concurrence, to

R 4 take

Parliamentary HISTORY

take away the Court of Wards, an ancient Appendage

( of the Crown ; and this without afking the King's

".February'." Confent about it, although, in the Reign of King
'James, the Parliament had offered that Monarch
the Sum of ioo,ooo/. for it by way of Purchafe ;
as mentioned at large in our Fifth Volume. This
Affair ftands thus entered in the Lords Journals :

' A Meflage was brought from the Houfe of
The Court of Commons by Sir Henry Fane, jun. That, in this.
Wards abolifted Time of great Diftra&ions, wherein the Lords,
SeS.6 Parlla" ^nd the Houfe of Commons, and the whole King-
4om have ventured their Lives and Fortunes, for
a Recompence to the whole Kingdom they have
a Right to take away a great Burden ; therefore
have made a Vote, wherein the Houfe of Com-
mons deflre their Lordfhips Concurrence.
The Vote was read as follows :
' That the Court of Wards and Liveries, and
all Wardships, Liveries, Primer- Seifins and Ouftrc
les Maines, and all other Charges incident or arifing
for or by reafon of Wardfliip, Livery, Primer-
Seifms, and Ouftre les Maines, be from this Day
taken away : And that all Tenures by Homage,
and all Fines, Licenfes, Seifures, and Pardons for
Alienation, and all other Charges incident there-
unto, be likewife taken away : And that all Te-
nures by Knights Service, either of his Majefty
or others, or by Knights Service or Socage in Ca-
pite of his Majefty, be turned into Free and Com-
mon Socage.'

Refohe3, upon the Queftion, Nem. Con. c That
this Houfe agrees to this Vote as it is now brought
up from the Houfe of Commons.'

It is very remarkable that this Vote was patted
by the Commons, agreed to by the Lords, and
ordered to be printed and publifhed, all on one and
the fame Day.

Mr. JVhithcke writes, That this Vote took its
Rife from an Ordinance being debated in the Houfe
of Commons, for difcharging the Wardfliip of

the

# ENGLAND. 265

the Heirs Male of Sir Chrt/fopher Wray, who died An. 21 car. r.
jn the Parliament's Service : And that thereupon l64c'
the Original of Wardfhips, the Mifapplication of February. f
the Intention of them, and the prefent Oppreffion
to the Families of Noblemen and Gentlemen by
them, was opened to the Houfe by Selden^ Mqynard^
St. John, himfelf, and other Lawyers.

It has been already mentioned that an Order
was made for a public Thankfgiving for the Taking: ^orf Hopton <te-

r/o;/! r> i_ r LT^ • 11° *eated In Devon*

of Cbefter:— But, before the Day appointed, there fhire by Sir Tbp-

came a Letter from Sir 'Thomas Fairfax^ giving an *&*>> Fairfax^
Account of the great Succefs he had gained over
the King's Forces commanded by the Lord Hopton,
near Torrington^ in Devonjhire j whereupon the
Parliament ordered that the fame Day {houW be
obferved as a Thankfgiving for both ; and that the
Minifters ftiould take particular Notice of each to
their refpe&ive Auditories.

This Letter was addrefled to the Speaker of the
Houfe of Commons, and is printed at large by Mr.
Rujhworth (/); which we therefore pafs over with
a Reference: But, in Juftice to that Gentleman's
ColleEliom^ it is to be obferved that it is omitted in
the 'Journals of both Houfes.

Feb. 26. A Better from the Earl of Rutland
was read with a Paper inclofed.

For the Lord GREY of Wark, Speaker of the Houfe
of Peers at Weftminfter.

May it pleafe your Lord/hip^

I Send your Lordfhip here inclofed an Abbreviate
of the Mutters of the Scots Army; the Rolls JtSJSju

* themfelves are very long, and therefore Copies concerning the
' of them are only fent to the Houfe of Commons ; Meters of

' and I befeech you give me Leave to put your Sc°" Army*

* Lordfhip in mind of my former Letters concern-
' ing thofe forces. The Committee of Noiting-

* ham
(t) Vol. VI. p. 59.

266 tte Parliamentary H I s T o R r

An. ai Car. I. * ham tell us of the real Eafe which' comes to them

i [ 5^_j ( by the 833 /. weekly paid by us to that Army,

February. ' an<^ tilat tnev c°uld not have fubfifted without it j

4 and our Experience allures us of the Truth

' thereof.

* We have paid four Weeks Payment, and two

* more are due on Wednefday next ; fo that th«
' 6000 /. advanced by the Treafurers of Goldfmith's-
' Hall will be fuddenly run out, and we know not

* how the Inhabitants of the North Side Trent
' can poflibly fubfift them. We cannot think of

* any Way for fo many Horfe on the North Side
c Trent) neither" doth the Service in thofe Parts re-
' quire the fourth Part of them, or any more Foot
' than there are there j and if any of their Horfc

* fhould come on this Side Trent,' our Forces muft

* fpeedily difband, and the Siege be raifed ; for all

* we can do to get Proviflons for thefe we have

* will fcarcely ferve, and we have full as many
' Englijh Horfe on the South Side Trent as are

* needful for the Service ; and indeed too many if
' the Yorkjhire Committee do not pay theirs, wha

* write to us they are not able, the Scots Horfe af-

* feffing on fome Parts of that County after the Rate
' of 90,000 /. per Menfern ; and which fome York-

* Jhire Gentlemen, now with us, fay is increafed

* to 1 1 0,000 /. per Menfem : But we hope the

* Committees in Yorkjhire will confider that not

* to be the Way for the Public or their own Good ;

* but will, through all Difficulties, pay their Forces

* while they are employed before Newark ; the re-
' ducing thereof fo much conducing to the Service
' of the whole Kingdom, efpecially of the Nor-

* them Parts.

' We earneftly defire fame authorifed from the

* Parliament of Scotland may come fpeedily, and
' join with us, to order the Scots Army. We have
4 been told thefe eight Weeks that they are daily
' expected, but we hear not of any on their Way
' towards us.

Your Lord/kip's humble Servant,
Feb „, RUTLAND.

^ENGLAND, 267

n Abbreviate of the MUSTERS taken of the Horfe^ An. ax Car, I.
Foot) and Train of Artillery of the Scots Army at y |64S> ,
Mufkam, the ijth of January, 1645, referred to February.
in the foregoing Letter.

HORSE.

The General, the Earl of Leven's Regiment 518

JJeut. Gen. David Lefty's Regiment - 625

Maj. Gen. Middleton's Regiment - 360

Lord Balcarras's Regiment - » 369

Sir Frederick Hamilton's Regiment - 328

Sir James Ramfay's Regiment - 412

Sir John Brown's Regiment - - 532

Col. Fan Ritfk's Regiment - - 304

The commanded Party - - 104

The Life-Guard - - - - 102

Col. Weldon's Regiment r • - - 310

College of Juftice Troop - - - - 69
Two Troops under Lieut. Col. Hamilton \

' and Capt. Difney '*$ . -. ' , J I03

In all, befides Officers, — 4136

FOOT.

Earl Mar/hal's Regiment - - _ 372

Earl of Tullibardinis Regiment ? . 482

Lcrd St. Clair's Regiment T - - - 403

Lord Levingjion's Regiment - - - 230

Sir Thcrr.cis Gutbrie's Regiment - - 325

Sir Arthur Erjkinis Regiment - - 247

Sir David Hume's Regiment - T 534

Col. Scot's Regiment - - 243

In all, befides Officers, — 2836

Officers and Men belonging to the Train 29

Waggoners - T -r - 21

In all 50

t
Another

268 *The Parliamentary HISTORY

Car. I. Another Mejpige from the King was this Day,
Feb. 28, prefented to the Lords by their Speaker,
February, which was read in thefe Words :

For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of PEERS pro
Tempo/re. To be communicated to the two
Houfes of Parliament at Wejlminfter, and the
Commiffioners of the Parliament of Scotland.

CHARLES R.

Another MefTage TTlS Majejly needs to make no Excufe, tbo' hefent
Feb" U* fbr^' "^^ no more Meflages unto y°u > for be very well
Peace. ' knnvs he ought not to do it, if he either Jlood upon

PurMilios of Honour or his own private Intcrejl -,
the one beivg already called in ^uejlion by his often
fending'; and the other ajfuredly prejudged if a Peace
be concluded from that he hath already offered, he
having therein departed from many of his undoubted
Rights : But nothing being equally dear unto him as
the Preservation of his People, his Majejly paffeth by
many Scruples, Neglects' and Delays^ and once more
dejires you to give him a fpeedy Anfwer. to his loft
Meflage ; for his Majejly believes it doth, very well
become him, after this very long Delay, at lajl to utter
his Impatience, fince that the Goods and Blood of his,
SubjecJs cry fo much for Peace.

Given at the Court at Oxford, the 26th of Fe-
bruary, 1645.

The fame Day the Lord JPlarton reported a Pa-
per from the Committee of both Kingdoms and a
Letter, which were read. The former runs thus :

Die Jovis, Feb. 2.6, 1645.
At the Committee of both Kingdoms at Derby-Houfe,

< f\ Rdered, that it be reported to both Houfes,
' ^ That, upon Receipt of an Order the twenty-
* third Inftant, this Committee forthwith gave Or-
ytith "he Enemy' der to Col. Fleetwood and Col. Whaley to be fo
« Oxford. « obfervant of the Motions of the Forces about
' Oxford and thofe Parts, that the Defign qf the
4 Ar.ny in the Weft might not be diftiirbed or in-
^ ': terrupted.

A» Order for

freventin- Sir

of E N G L A N D. 269

terrupted by any Alarms into any of the Parts An- *^Car< r*
Wejlward ; yet we thought it neceflary that the , ' 4'5' ,
Forces with Col. Whaley fhould be kept toge- February,
ther as much as may be on the North of Oxford,
to prevent the joining of the Forces of Oxford^
and the reft of the Garrifons and their Parties
with Sir 'Jacob AJlley, (which we have Intelli-
gence they do intend) who being the greateft
Number of Forces that the Enemy any where
have, may, if they be increafed with the Addi-
tion of thofe about Oxford^ give the moft pro-
bable Beginning to a new Army for the King ;
for by lying there they alfo are moft ready to
hinder the marching of the Oxford Troops, or
thofe with Sir Jacob Ajlley^ towards Newark^ to
interrupt that Siege ; and may alfo befl preferve
the Aflbciation.

' Ordered, that it be further reported to both
Houfes, That we have alfo written to Col. cftftf
wood and Col. TPhaley to fend 200 Horfe into a
certain Place in Wiltjhlre^ near Farringdon ; and
have defired the Committee of Wilts to provide
200 Mulketeers to be made Dragoons, for the
more fecure lying of thofe Horfe ; and that the
Houfes will take the fame Courfc to enable that
County to raife fome more Horfe for their own
Defence.'

Next was read a Letter of General Le/ley'st and
a Declaration.

For the Right Hon. the C o M M I T T E E of both
Houfes with the Army before Newark.

Right Honourable^

I Acknowledge, with all Thankfulnefs, your General Lefty's
Freedom in acquafnting us with the bafe Letter relating t«
Calumnies and Informations invented and fpr
abroad againft our Army ; which I dare fay
proceed, for the moft part, from the A&ivenefs,
Induftry, and Malice of our Enemies, on pur-
pofe to render us hateful to our Friends, and to

4 divide

276 *fbt Parliamentary

An. * i Car. I. < divide (which God avert) the Kingdoms if pof~
' fible.

' I have ever beeti rhoft willing to redrefs the

* leaft Injury and Wrong done by any under my

* Command ; aridj at this prefent, have the moft
' of them which are complained of by the Inhabi-
« tants of Tlckblll ih Prifon, upon whom I fhall do
' Juftice moft feverely, fo foon as any of the
' Crimes they are charged with be proved ; by which
4 your Lordfhips may fee how unjuftly we are
« dealt with. In the beft regulated Armies that

* ever were there have been Diforders and Mif-
' carriages j neither is it to be expected but there

* have been, and are, fome in ours, confidering
' how much we have been neglected in our Main-

* tenance, that fometimes, for the Space of feven

* or eight Months together, we have received no

* Pay; arid as It is rio .fmall Matter of Grief to
' me when any Mifcarriage falls out, fo no fooner

* is any Diforder made known t6 me but I put it
' to Trial and Examination, which is clear in that

* of Tickhilli fo much aggravated ; for I no fooner
' heard of the Abufes faid to be done there, but I

* caufed to imprifon the Perfons complained of;

* I entreated the Commiflioners of the Parliament

* to fend to Tickhill fome from them,' where I ap-
< pointed honeft and able Men from our Army to
' meet with them, to hear the Complaints and re-

* port to me, that I might accordingly clear or
' punifh the Perfons complained of. Thofe ap--

* pointed by me went to the Place, but there were
' none there to meet with them ; and the Reafoh

* pretended was, becaufe the Inhabitants durft not
' complain as Icng as there was in the Place a Re-
' giment to over-awe them, which I dare fay is a
' Calumny ; wherefore I have removed that Re-
' giment, and have renewed my Entreaty to the
' Commiflioners, that they will be pleafed to fend

* fome from them to Tickhiil; where I fhall meet
' them with the Perfons complained of, that, if

* they be found guilty, they may be punifhed acj

' cording

of E N G L A N D. 271

* cording to the Nature of their Faults j and, if An. 21 Car. I.
' innocent, they may be cleared. ^^ 6*5- ^

' As to that of Major Blair ; it is a wild Ca- February,
4 lumny, for fince his coming to Nottingham he

* had no Order from me to return to Torkjhire ;
' neither did he return or quarter there fmce, but
1 is yet lying with his Troops in Derbyjhlre. And
4 for our Army, notwithstanding all the heinous
' Crimes we are charged with, I dare fay never
' Army lived more peaceably and quietly than we
' have done ; and that no Army in the Kingdom

* is more willing to accept of a Competency for

* Subfiftance, and to offer themfelves, when com-'
' manded, with all Chearfulnefs for the Advantage
' of the Public Service. I am confident that God,

* ijvho knows the Sincerity of our Hearts to this
6 Kingdom, and the Caufe we fight for, will, in

* his own Time, prove the Truth of this.

* I have fent you here inclofed n. Copy of a De-
' >claration) which I have caufed to be piiblifhed

* this laft Sabbath in all the Parim-Churches when*

* our Forces lie ; a Copy whereof I have alfo fent

* to the Commiffioners of the Honourable Houfes

* of Parliament, and to the Committee of York-
' Jhiret which I entreat you to prefent with this

* Letter to the Committee of both Kingdoms, and

* to the Parliament j as alfo to give Aflurance

* to all Friends, that whatfoever Reports may be

* fpread of our Army, they may, notwithftandine;,
' reft confident that there mail be no Diforders or
' Mifcarriage in it which fhall not be feverely

* puniflied ; that I will expect fo much Charity

* and Juitice from them, that they will believe

* nothing to our Prejudice upon bare and naked

* Informations and Reports ; and that they will
c fufpend their Judgments till due Trial and Exa-

* mination be made : This done I doubt not but
' we (hall receive good Tcftimonies from our
' Friends, and make our Enemies and Accufers

* afhatned of their Lies and Calumnies where-

* with they have charged us, who have been, and

4 ever

1272 STBf ParliameMaty HISTORY

An. ai dr. I. « ever (hall be, zealous in abhorring and pumfliing
t l64-5- c fucn Villainies 5 and (hall ever remain

February.

*:<r/£w», F<r*. 22, J*0fcr Lord/hips faithful Servant,

DAVID LESLEY;

'the DECLARATION, mentioned in the foregoing,

was as follows :

tr n ri»»tinh c TT/HEREAS both Houfes of Parliament have

xiis L/eciaration %A/ \ t • /~~\ r *• i»

fromifing to re- « VV lately given Order for providing 1 5,000/2

drefs all Perfons c per Menfem^ for the Maintenance of the Forces

aggrieved t te- € before jy^,^ under my Command, it is ex-

' pecked the Honourable Commiflioners of Parlia-

* ment will take fpecial Care for due Performance

* thereof; whereby the Army may, in fome MeH-
c fure, fubfift and be enabled to profecute the Ser-
' vice wherein they are now engaged :

* And whereas clivers Complaints have been made
c elfewhere againft fome in this Armyj without
' making any Addrefs to us here upon the Place^

* who have ever been, and {hall be, moft ready ana
' willing to redrefs all juft Grievances ; we have

* thought fit to make known to all the Inhabi-
' tants in thefe Parts, that we have iflued our EdicT:

* and Proclamation, commanding all our Officers
' and Soldiers not to prefume, upon Pain of Death,

* to offer the leaft Wrong or Violence whatfoever
' to any in their Perfons or Goods ; and we dd

* hereby invite all fuch as have* or {hall receive

* any Wrong or Injury from any within this Army

* to make their Repair freely to our Quarters, to

* exhibit their Complaint againft any Officer or

* Soldier whatfoever; and we do faithfully promife

* that fevere Punifliment {hall be inflicted upon all

* fuch as {hall be found guilty upon Trial : As, on
'* the other Part, we expect that none will be fo
' forgetful of their Duty, or injurious to this Army,
' as to make Complaints elfewhere, *when Juftice
' hath not been denied them upon the Place.'

DAVID LESLEY.

March

*f ENGLAND. 273

March. As the laft Month ended with Scots Af- An. 21 Car. I.
fairs, fo this Month begins with the fame ; for, on l645-
the fecond, the Speaker acquainted the Lords that March™"
a Letter was delivered him from the Lord Warri~
Jlon^ one of the Scots Commiffioners, which came
from the Parliament of Scotland, and was read as
follows :

For the Right Hon. tie L o R D s and COMMONS
ajffembled in the Parliament of England, at Weft-
minfter.

St. Andrew^ Feb. io> 164!-.
Right Honourable,

BEING appointed by the Parliament of this Tf,e Scots com-1
Kingdom, now adjourned, to keep Corref- plain of fome
pondence with the Honourable Houfes of Par- £
liament of England; and being intrufted with the Nati
Purfuance of their Dsfires for the Furtherance of
the Common Caufe, and the public and mutual
Good of both Kingdoms ; we do, in the Name
of the Parliament, and by their Authority, cer-
tify, That this Kingdom, notwithftanding all
their Sufferings and Difcouragements, are not
moved or fhaken from their former Refolutions
and Vows, but will live and die with their Bre-
thren of England^ in the Profecution of the Ends
exprefled in the Solemn League and Covenant : Be-
ing confident of the like Inclination and Refolu-
tion of the Parliament and Kingdom of England
againft all fuch groundlefs Sufpicions and need-
lefs Jealousies to the contrary, as bad Inftruments
from the Beginning to this Day have been, from,
their Envy of our common Happinefs, and for
their own private Ends, inventing, and fuggefting
that all the common Troubles which both King-
doms have endured, may end in a public Tra-
gedy, to the Scandal and Grief of the Reformed
Churches, the hardening and ftrengthening of our
common Enemies, the making of ourfclves the
Inftruments of our own mutual Ruin andDeftruc-
tion ; and, which is moft of all, the Difhonour
of the jn-eat Name of our God, with whom we
VOL. XIV. S « have

274

An. ai Car. I.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

have entered into Covenant for the Propagation of
the Gofpel, and the Advancement of the King-
dom of his Son.

' For the prefent, according to the Truft com-
mitted unto us, we make our Addrefs to both
Houfes in the Particulars following, and do not
doubt but we {hall receive fuch Satisfaction as
may be a real Teftimony of their Juftice and bro-
therly Kindnefs. Uppn Information from our
CommifTioners there, the Parliament, before
their adjourning, did underftand what was writ-
ten by one calling himfelf Robert Wright^ and in-
formed by another whofe Name was kept in the
Dark, and confirmed by a Letter of Mr. Jermin's
to the Lord Digby^ againft this Kingdom, their
Army in England^ and their Commiflioners there.
The Accufations are of fo high a Nature, and
fo fophiftically infinuated, that the Parliament
(who during their fitting were, upon all Occa-
fions, endeavouring the beft Ways of the preferv-
ing the happy Conjunction of the two King-
doms) were much affe&ed therewith, as a Mat-
ter wherein they were much concerned, both for
their own Vindication and the Satisfaction of
their Brethren. If there (hall be any Matter or
Ground of fuch Accufation found againft any
Perfon of this Kingdom, or our Army, or any
of our Commiflioners, we are no lefs willing that
it be examined and punifhed to the full, than we
defire and expect that the like be done againft any
in England that tranfgrefs in that Kind ; which
is conform to our Covenant^ wherein we all
fwear, With all Faithfulnefs to endeavour the Dif-
covery of all fuch as have been, or Jhall be, Incen-
diaries^ Maglignants, or evil Injlruments^ by bin"
derlng the Reformation of Religion^ dividing the
King from his People , or any of the Kingdoms from
the other , that they may be Brought to public Trial,
and receive condign Punijhment as the Degree of
their Offences JbaU require or deferve. But let us
defire and expedt, from our Brethren, all Charity,
Tendernefs, and Refpeft, to this Kingdom, our

'^Army

tf :E N G L A N 0. 275

Army, and Commiflioners > of whofe Faithful- An. *j Car.
nefs they have had fo large and manifold Expe- V*~'.:_
rience, arid in their feveral Letters to this King- Marsh.
dom did give them fo ample Teftirnonies, that
no Afperfiort or Sufpicions lie upon them by con-
cealing the Names of arty Perfons who Cafi be
difcovered. And therefore^ according to the Truft
committed Unto Us, we do defire, in the Name
of the Parliament and Kingdom of Scdtlarid^ (if
that Robert Wright be not yet found out who he
isj and that hidden Knight, after fo long a Time*
be not yet unfecreted, and made known by Name)
all Means may be be ufed for difcovering the one*
whofe Letters have been fo frequently produced
before the Committee of both Kingdoms ; and
revealing the other to our Commiffionersj which
is in the Power of fome of the Members of the
Houfe of Commons to do j that both Kingdoms
may be fatisfied when the Truth is brought to
Light, and all fuch Jealoufies and Mifunderftand^
ings prevented for the future*
' We do alfo reprefent to the Honourable Houfes
of Parliament, that this Kirk and Kingdom is
more fcandalized and grieved in the Matter of
Religion, which immediately concerneth God
and his Honour, than in any Thing oh Earth
touching themfelves and their own Name.
' A Directory for the Worfhip of God is agreed
upon in the Aflembly, and authorized by both
Kingdoms, and practifed carefully by this Church j
but the Service-Book ftill retained in fome Places
of England under the Parliament's Power, and
the Direftory very much flighted j and by fome
avowedly written againft. Inftead of the intend-
ed Unity in Religion, blafphemous Errors, He-^
refies, Se&s and Schifms are increafed and mul-
tiplied through the Want of Church-Govern-
ment. The National AHembly of this Kirkj in
their Anfaer to the Declaration of the Parlia-
ment of England, of the Date July, 1642, pm-
fefs, That them/elves, and all the Wtll-afifted
within tht Kingdom, are exceedingly grieved cirui
82 * made

Parliamentary H i s T o R V

heavy, becaufe the Reformation of Religtbn
had moved fo JJowly, and fuffered fo great Interrupt
tion. And the Lords and Commons in Parlia-
ment aflembled, in their Reply, did profefs, That
the mlferable Eft ate of the Church and Kingdom ivas

* not able to endure any longer Delay. Like as, in

* their Declaration fent to the General Aflerhbly,
' they profefs, That they do not doubt but to fettle

* fuch a Reformation of the Church, as Jhould be mojl

* agreeable to God's Word. And, in the aforefaid

* Reply, they declare, That their Purpofe is to con-
' fult with godly and learned Divines, that they may

* fettle fuch a Government as may be mojl agreeable to
« God's mojl holy Word,

' Some Commiffioners from this Kirk have at-

* tended the Aflembly of Divines there, for the
' Space of two Years and a half} and, long ago,
' the Aflembly have offered their Advice to both
' Houfes, yet can we hear nothing of the fettling
' of any Government; but, upon the contrary, of
' a real Growth of all Sects and Errors, and of

* great Endeavours for Toleration thereof, which
' maketh us and this Church and Kingdom, who
' cannot underftand where the Difficulty and Ob*

* ftru&ion lieth, to wonder at fo long a Delay ;
' wherein we are very much interested, not only

* in relation to the Glory of God, our mutual

* League and Covenant, and the Peace and Hap-

* pinefs of that Church and Kingdom ; but alfo
' in regard of the Unity of Religion amongft our-*

* felves, and of the Peace of this Kingdom, which
' cannot be long preferved from fo dangerous Con-

* tagion ; which would be more grievous and in-

* tolerable unto us, than all our Troubles and Suf*
' ferings have been : And therefore, from all thefe
' Confiderations, in the Name of this Kingdom

* and Parliament, we do in all Earneftnefs defire,

* That Church-Government may now at lafr,
' without further Delay, be fettled according to

* the Covenant.

' We do in like Manner prefs what hath been
' folicited by our Ct mmiffioners for the Space of

* eight

of ENGLAND.

eight Months paft, That the Proportions for An
Peace •, after fo much Debate and Deliberation
agreed upon unanimoufly by both Kingdoms, the
moft material whereof have been fully treated
upon at Uxbridge^ may be forthwith fent to his
Majefty ; wherein this Kingdom is the more ear-
neft, that they know not the Caufe why the fend-
ing of thefe Proportions is fo long fufpended :
They long for the End of this unhappy War, by
the happy fettling of Religion and Peace j and fo
much the more, that they do percejve forne wqultf
make Ufe of the Continuance of thefe Wars, to
raife and foment Jealoufies and Differences be-
twixt thefe Kingdoms, and to feparate thofe
whom God hath fo ftricftly tied for fo good Ends,
by fo many Bonds and Relations ; and we are
confident will never fuffer to be divided, but ftill
continue them in a firm and blefled Conjunction

* againft all Machinations of Satan and his In-*

* ftruments ; which fhall ever be the fettled Rer°.

* folution and conftant Endeavour of

»•»
Tour Lord/kip*

AffeRionate Friend^

and humble Servant^

L O U D O N, Cancel/anus^
J. P. /). Com,

As foon as the Lords had heard this Letter read,
they refolved to fend it to the Houfe of Commons^
with this Senfe upon it ; That the Lords thought
fit, for the keeping a good Correfpondency and
Union between the two Kingdoms, that all pof-
fible Means may be ufed for the Difcovery of Ro-
bert Wright and the unknown Knight, mentioned
in the Letter; the other Particulars the Houfe
would confider of in due Time.

March 4. Some of the Proportions for Peace

being now finilhed by the Commons, and agreed

83 to

278 £& Parliamentary HISTORY

Gar. I. to by the Lords, they were fent to the Scots Com-
45- miffioners for their Concurrence: But fmce they
M*"di ' are not as velt entered *n their Journals, we {hall
refer all the following Scots Memorials and Repre*
fentations to Parliament to another Place, where
they will better occur all together,

The Siege of Newark went but flowly on, every
Inch of Ground being difputed by the Befieged.
The Earl of Rutland, in a Letter dated from Lin-
coin, March 3, wrote Word, That their whole
Army, on the South Side Trent, were drawn to-r
gether ; the farthermoft Foot Quarters about a
Mile from the Town ; others at Farringdon,
Houghton* and Baldertont fo to Trent again at
Wintborp. That Evening about 300 Horfe and
Foot of the Garrifon faced them, but advanced
not from under the Cover of their own Cannon,
The Scots Army were drawn 'up on the North Side
Trent, and the Soldiers were all full of Courage,
and very few fick amongft them, He concludes
with fa)wng, That he hoped ftiortly to give the
a good Account of the Place,

Th* Commons The Commons had been many Months employ-

fend up to the e(j j^ framing an Ordinance for fettling of Church-

nance for fettl/ng Government ; and this Day, $Aarcb 6, having

pf Church-Cp- pafled the fame, they ordered That Mr, Denzil

feruweot, Holies, accompanied by all the Members of the

Houfe, mould carry it up to the Lords for their

Concurrence j which was done the next Day ac-

cordingly, the Speaker leaving the Chair in the

Interim. The Lords gave Anfwer, That they

conceived it to be a Bufmefs of great Weight, and

Would take it into their ferious Confiderationf

March 9. For Want of Materials at home, we
{hall here exhibit a Copy of a Letter to the Par-
Jiament, from their Agent Mr, Strickland, at the
JIfigue, with an Account of what was doing abroad,
?ind how &e reft of Europe were employed at this

For-

^ENGLAND. 279

For the Right Hon. the Lord GR E Y of Warke, An. zi Car. I.

Speaker of the Houfe of Lords. l l645' _,

Afy Lords, March.

O M E Propofitions betwixt France and Spain A Letter from
have put this State into great Confiderations, Mr. Strickland

* and are queftionlefs as much our Intereft as theirs. at the Hague.

* The Spaniard makes many Add refles to this State

* to treat with it a-part ; but this State, in that,

* went bona Fide ; and would not meddle but by

* Communication with the French according to the

* Treaty. Now he offers, by the Pope's Nuncio
' and the Venetian Ambaflador, the Mediators at

* Munjler, to give Flanders, and the reft of the

* Provinces in his Poffeffion, to the French, in Mar-

* riage with the Infanta to the French King, upon
4 Condition to have Catalonia reftored, and the

* Alliance broken with the King of Portugal.

* Two of the States Ambaffadors are returned to

* communicate this, which is Matter of much

* Weight. The French fay they will accept no-
' thing but by Confent of this State ; but the States

* are fo full of this, that they have fent into all

* Provinces to have Inftru&ions what to do, if

* fuch a Refolution be taken.

* My Lord, this Bufmefs hath more troubled

* this State than any Thing yet ever fell out fmce

* I came ; and, if it fhould proceed, it would as

* much concern us as them in our neareft Tnterefts.

* The French Minifters aflure this State no Condi-

* tion will be offered nor taken by them, but by

* mutual Confent. It were to be wimed thofe ho*

* nourable Perfons (a), mentioned to come hither,

* were here > that thofe Interefts, which concern
« us fo nearly, might be managed by thofe whole
' Abilities and Integrities might promife us better
« Succefs.

* If France and Spain make a Peace without the

* States, it renders our Alliance more valuable ;

S 4 < and

(a) The J,ord Rvlcrtt and Sir Henry Vane, fenior, as well an Mr.
Strickland, were appointed to refide at the Hague on Behalf of th*
Parliament : But the latter only went.

2 So *£he Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 21 Car. I.< and, however, ours will be more confiderable be-

l54S- f fore any Peace at Munjler than after. Many

March ' think thefe Offers are efpecially made to divide
* the French and the States^ or at leaft to make
' both lefs in hafte for the Field this Summer. I
' am,

My Lordsy , -^ p

Hague, March \$ Y^r Lwd^5 humMg Servant,
10457.

WALTER STRICKLAND.

About this Time alfo an Ordinance was patted
for fettlirig and regulating the Herarlds Office j to
effect which Mr. Whitlocke tells us he much la-
boured, and was one of the Committee for that
Purpofe ; but that he was oppofed by many inclin-
ed to Levelling,

March 14. The Lords having agreed to the Or-
dinance for fettling of Prefbyterial Church-Govern-
ment, the fame was ordered to be forthwith print-
ed ; but we do not meet with it in any of the Col-
lections of thefe Times. It is thus, entered in the
Journals :

An ORDINANCE for keeping of fcandalous Perfons
from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper j the en-
abling of Congregations for the Choice of Elders ;
and fupplying of Defefls in former Ordinances and
Direftions of Parliament concerning Church-Go-
vcrnmeut,

hft men. < "Tp H E Lords and Commons, afTembled m
' * Parliament, being very fcnfible of the

* great Duty which lieth upon them to fettle Mat-

< ters concerning Religion and the Worfliip of
« Almighty God ; and having continually before

< their Eyes the Covenant which they haye fo fo-
« lemnly taken for the Performance thereof, and the

* manifold Motives and Encouragements thereto
: v.hich are given them from God himfelf, by

4

of E N G L A N D. 281

* fpecial Hand of Providence pouring forth daily An. 21 Car. I.

* Mercies upon them ; in Difcharge of their Du- *6'

* ty, and in purfuance of the faid Covenant, and
' in Thankful nefs to God for all his Mercies, hav—

* ing diligently applied themfelves to that Work
' of his Houfe ; by his Grace and Affiftance they

* have made fome Progrefs therein, notwithftand-

* ing the Exigency of other Affairs, accompanied
•* oftentimes with great and imminent Dangers ;
' and notwithftanding the great Difficulty of the

* Work itfelf, in divers Refpe&s, and particularly

* in the right jointing of what was to be fettled

* with the Laws and Government of the Kingdom ;

* the Want whereof hath caufed much Trouble in

* this and other States : Yet, by the merciful Af-
' fiftance of God, haying removed the Book of
' Common- Prayer, with all its unneceflary and
•* burdenfome Ceremonies, and eflablifhed the Dl-
' reftory in the Room thereof; and having abolifh-

* ed the Prelatical Hierarchy by Archbifhops, Bi-

* (hops, and their Dependants ; and, inftead there-

* of, laid the Foundation of a Prefbyterial Go-
' vernment in every Congregation, with Subordi-

* nation to Claffical, Provincial, and National
4 Aflemblies, and of them all to the Parliament ;

* although it cannot be expected, that a prefent

* Rule, in every Particular, fhould be fettled ajl

* at once ; but that there will be need of Supple-

* ments and Additions, and haply alfo of Altera-
' tions in fome Things, as Experience {hall bring
' to Light the Neceffity thereof; yet were the
' Fundamentals, and fubftantial Parts of that Go-
' vernment long fmce fettled in Perfons by and
' over whom it was to be exercifed ; and the Na-
' ture, Extent, and refpective Subordination of
' their Power was limited and defined : Only,
' concerning the Adminiftration of the Sacrament
' of the Lord's Supper, How all fuch Perfons as
' were guiltv of notorious and fcanc'alous Offences
* might be fufpended from it, fome Difficulty a if-
« ing, not fo much in the Matter itfelf, as in the
f Manner, How it Ihould be done, and who

« fliould

28*

An. zi Car. I.
1645.

Parliamentary HISTORY

fhould be the Judges of the Offence ; the Lords
and Commons having it always in their Purpofc
and Intention, and it being accordingly declared
and refolved by them, That all Sorts of notorious
fcandalous Offenders fhould be fufpended from
the Sacrament ; for the Preventing of an indefinite
and unlimited Power in the Elderfhips, they held
it fit, for the prefent, that the particular Cafes of
fuch fcandalous Offences fhould be fpecified and
enumerated ; with exprefs Declaration, That
further Provifion fhould be made, by Authority
of Parliament, for fuch Cafes as were left out of
the faid Enumeration : Which accordingly hav-
ing fince taken into their ferious Confideration ;
and having had feveral Debates thereupon, as the
Difficulty of the Matter required, which hath
taken up much Time j for the avoiding, as far
as poffible may be, all arbitrary Power ; and that
all fuch Cafes wherein Perfons fhould be fufpend-
ed from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
might be brought to the Cognizance, and pafs
the Judgment of the Parliament, who were bound
in Juftice, as well to take care that none be in-
jurioufly detained from that Ordinance, as to give
Power, whereby fuch may be kept away who
are unfit to partake therein ; and to the Intent
alfo that a full and fpeedy Courfe may be fettled
to enable the feveral Elderfhips to fufpend all fuch
Offenders from the Lord's Supper, without hav-
ing recourfe to the Parliament itfelf from all
Parts of the Kingdom upon every fuch emergent
Cafe, which might prove troublefome and tedious,
and give Liberty to fuch notorious and fcanda-
lous Offenders to communicate a long Space in
the faid Ordinance ; and to the Intent likewife,
that all fuch Cafes coming firft from the parti-
cular Elderfhips may, after they have paffed the
Judgment of Parliament, return again to all the
feveral Elderfhips within the Kingdom, to pro-
ceed upon them, from Time to Time, in like
Manner as in the Cafes enumerated : For the
Ends ajnd Purpofes aforefaid, and alfo for Supply

* of

of E N G L A N D. 283

* of fome Defers in the former Ordinance and Di- An- al Car*

* rections of Parliament, concerning the Choice of t l645'

* Elders and fome other Matters :

I. ' Be it Ordained, That there be forthwith a

* Choice made of Elders throughout the Kingdom

* of England^ and Dominion of JVales^ in the re-

* fpective Parifti-Churches and Chapels, accord-

* ing to fuch Directions as have already pafled both

* Houfes, bearing Date dugujl tbe Nineteenth,

* 1645, and fince that Time : And all ClafTes,

* and Parochial Congregations, are refpectively

* hereby authorized and required, forthwith effec-

* tually to proceed therein accordingly.

II. ' That Notice of the Eledion of Parochial
e and Congregational Elders, and of the Time

* when it fhall be, be given by the Minifter, in
' the public AfTembly, the next Lord's Day but

* one before : And that, on that faid Lord's Day, a

* Sermon be preached, preparatory to that weighty
« Bufmefs.

III. « That fuch Elections (hall be made by the

* Congregation, or the major Part of them, then
' aflembled, being fuch as have taken the "National

* Covenant^ and are not Perfons under Age, nor

* Servants that have no Families,

IV. ' That the Tryers of Eledions of Elders

* fhall have Power to receive, hear, and determine

* all Exceptions brought in to them concerning

* undue Elections ; and, to that End, to call before
' them all fuch Perfons fo elected, and accepting

* fuch Election ; and to fend for fuch Witnefles
' as fhall" be nominated unto them, by fuch Perfons
« as fhall bring in fuch Exceptions : And fhall have

* Power to examine, upon Oath, both the Perfons

* bringing in fuch Exceptions, and the faid Wit-

* nefies, concerning any undue Proceedings in the

* Manner of the faid Election, and concerning all
' Matters of Ignorance or Scandal objected againft

* the Party elected, and exprefled in any Ordinance
< of Parliament to be afufficient Caufe of Sufpen-

* fion from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper,

• and

284 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. « Car. I. < and of which any Elderfhip, by any Ordinance

l6+5- < of Parliament, hath Cognizance and Jurifdidtion,

March ' an(^ tnat ^a^ ^e Prove^ to nave been committed

' within one whole Year before the Exceptions

' exhibited : And that the Perfons, againft whom

' the Exceptions are taken, fhall have like Liberty

c to produce WitnefTes, to be examined in like

c Manner on their Behalf.

V. « That the Treafurers fhall have Power to
e examine, Whether the Elders that are to be

* chofen, be fo qualified, as is exprefled in the

* Ordinance, or Directions, which hath patted
< both Houfes.

VI. < That in cafe the Eleftion of any Elder of

* a Congregation, upon juft Proof and Examina-
' tion, be found by the Tryers appointed for that

* Purpofe to be unduly made ; the faid Tryers

* may order fuch Elder to be removed, and another

* to be chofen in his Place.

VII. < That the Chapels or Places in the Houfes

* of the King, and his Children, {hall continue
« free for the Exercife of Divine Duties, to be per-^
' formed according to the £>ireflory, and not other-

* wife.

VIII. c That the Chapels or Places in the Houfe

* of Peers of this Realm {hall have the like Free-.
' dom.

IX. « That the Savoy Parifh {hall be reckoned

* within the Eleventh Claflis of London.

X. « That the Chapel of the Rolls, the Two
c Serjeant 3- Inns, and the Four Inns of Court, {hall

* be a Province of themfelves.

« That the Prefbytery of the Chapel of the Rolls,

* the Two Serjeants -Inns, and the Four Inns of

* Court, {hall be divided into two Clafles.

* That Lincoln's- Inn, Grey's- Inn, Serjeants-

* Inn in Chancery- Lane, and the Rolls, {hall be
' one Claflis : That the Two Temples^ and 5*r-

* jean? s -Inn in Fleet-Street, {hall be the other
4 "Claffis.

XI. ' ' That the Claffical Aflemblies in each
' Province {hall afTemble Lhemfelves within one

' Month

cf ENGLAND, 285

* Month after they fliall be conftituted, and this An. 21 Car. I.

* Ordinance publifhed ; and fliall thenceforth hold l645'
their Meetings monthly by Adjournment, or March.

' oftener, if need be, in fuch a certain Place, as

* fliall be moft convenient for the Eafe of the

* People.

XII. c That, out of every Congregational El-

* derfliip, there fliall be Two Elders, or more,
c not exceeding the Number of Four, and One

* Minifter, fent to every Claflis.

XIII. * That all Perfons, guilty of notorious

* and fcandalous Offences, and more particularly '

* all Renouncers of the true Proteftant Religion,

* profeffed in the Church of England 'y and all Per-

* fons that fliall, by Preaching or Writing, main-

* tain any fuch Errors as do fubvert any of thofe

* Articles, the Ignorance whereof do render any
' Perfon excluded from the Sacrament of the Lord's

* Supper ; and all Perfons that fliall make any
' Images or Pictures of the Trinity, or of any
' Perfon thereof ; and all Perfons in whom Malice

* appears, and they refufe to be reconciled ; and
( the fame appearing upon juft Proof; all fuch
c Perfons may be fufpended from the Sacrament of

* the Lord's Supper.

XIV. ' That, in every Province, Perfons fliall
c be chofen by the Houfes of Parliament, that fliall
c be Commiflioners to judge of fcandalous Offences

* (not enumerated in any Ordinance of Parlia-
' ment) to them prefented : And that the Elder-

* fhip of that Congregation, where the faid Offence
' was committed, fliall, upon Examination and

* Proof of fuch fcandalous Offence (in like Man-

* ner as is to be done in the Offences enumerated)

* certify the fame to the Commiflioners, together

* with the Proof taken before them : And, before

* the fold Certificate, the Party accufed fliall have
1 Liberty to make fuch Defence as he fliall think

* fit before the faid Elderfllip, and alfo before the
; Commiflioners, before any Certificate fliall be
1 rnaue to the Parliament : And if the faid Com-

* mi {Rollers,

2 86 The Parliamentary HISTORY

. 21 Car. I. e miffioners, after Examination of all Parties, (hall

I6*5- * determine the Offence, fo prefented and proved,,

March * to ^e fcandalous, and the fame fhall certify ta

' the Congregation ; the Elderfhip thereof may fu-

* fpend fuch Perfon from the Sacrament of the
' Lord's Supper, in like Manner as in Cafes enu-
' merated in any Ordinance of Parliament.

XV. « That fuch Perfons as fhall be chofen for

* Commiffioners to judge of notorious and fcan-
' dalous Offences as aforefaid, fhall be Men of

* good Underftanding in Matters of Religion, found

* in the Faith, prudent, difcreet, grave, and of
' unblameable Converfation, and fuch as do ufual-
' ly receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as
' Members of a Prefbyterial Congregation.

XVI. £ That if any Perfon fhall commit any
« fcandalous Offence (not enumerated in any Or-

* dinance of Parliament) upon the Day of the Ad-
' miniftration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Sup-
' per, in the Face of the Congregation, after it is
« aflembled, the Minifter of that Congregation

* may forbear to adminifter the Sacrament to fuch

* a Perfon for that Time : And he fhall, within

* eight Days after, certify the faid Offence and For-

* bearance unto the Commiffioners aforefaid : And,

* upon Certificate fo made, the faid Commiffioners
« fhall proceed thereupon, as in other Cafes not

* enumerated ; and fhall make Certificate of the

* Cafe or Cafes, with their Opinions, to both

* Houfes of Parliament, with all Speed : And,
« thereupon, the Parliament fhall proceed to a final

* Determination of the Cafe ; and fend the fame

* Determination thereof to the Parifh where fuch
« Offence fhall have been committed : And, as

< often as the like Cafe fhall fall out in any Con-

* gregation, the Elderfhip thereof, having Notice

* of fuch Determination, fhall proceed thereupon,

* as in Cafe of Offences enumerated in any Ordi~

* nance of Parliament.

XVII. * That the faid Commiffioners (upon

< Notice given to them, or any Two of them, of

« any

of E N G L A N D. 287

* any Cafe of Scandal befallen, whereof they ought An. ai Car.
' to have Cognizance by virtue of any Ordinance |64S*

' of Parliament) (hall aflemble themfelves in fuch March,
' certain Place, within that Province, as may be
' moft convenient for the Eafe of the People ; and
' thereof fhall give timely Notice to the Minifters of

* that Province, whereof they are Commiflioners ;

* and, being met, {hall adjourn their Meeting,

* from Time to Time, for fuch Time as the Cafe
' {hall require.

XVIII. < That the Elderfhip of each Congre-
' gation, or the major Part of them, as alfo the

* Claflis of each Province, or major Part of them,

* and alfo the Provincial Commiflioners, or major
' Part of them, after they fhall be aflembled, {hall
' have Power, by Warrant under their Hands, in.

* all Cafes whereof they have Cognizance, by any

* Ordinance of Parliament, to convent before them

* all Perfons, againft whom any Complaint {hall

* be brought by virtue of any fuch Ordinance ;
' and all fuch Witnefles as {hall be named, accord-

* ing to any fuch Ordinance, for the Difcovery of

* the Truth of any fuch Complaint : And, in cafe

* any fuch Perfon {hall refufe to appear, not being
4 a Peer of this Realm, Member of the Houfe of
c Commons, or Afliftant of the Houfe of Peers, or

* Officer of the Houfe of Parliament, then, upon

* Complaint made to the next Juftice of the Peace,

* the Party refuting ftiall be brought before him ;

* and, in cafe of obftinate Perfifting, {hall be com-

* mitted by the faid Juftice of Peace, till he fubmit
f to Order.

XIX. « That if any Member of a Congrega-
' tion {hall, by virtue of any Ordinance of Parlia-

* ment, for any Offence of Scandal, be fufpended

* from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper j and,

* being fo fufpended, {hall offer himfelf to any o-

* ther Congregation to receive the Sacrament of the
< Lord's Supper together with them ; fuch Congrc-
« gation, having Notice of fuch Sufpenfion, mall
« net, without Certificate from the Congregation

* whereof

288 fbe Parli'amehtary HISTORY

An. ai Car. I. c whereof he is a Member, admit him unto the
« Sacrament. ,

XX. c That any Minlfter of a Congregation
' may be fufpended from giving or receiving, and

* any Elder from receiving the Sacrament of the
c Lord's Supper, for the fame Caufes, and in the

* fame Manner, and have like Benefits of Appeal,

* as any other Perfon may by any Ordinance of

* Parliament : And, after fuch Sufpenfion of the
' Elder from the Sacrament, the Elder, fo fufpend-
' ed, fhall not execute that Office during his Su-
c fpenfion, urftil the Appeal be determined : And

* if, upon the Appeal, the Sufpenfion appear to

* have been juft, then another to be chofen in his
« Place.

XXI. c That, in all Cafes of Appeal to the
e Claffical, Provincial, or National Aflembly, they

* fhall have Power refpe&ively to proceed there-
' upon by Examination of Witnefles, and other-

* wife, in fuch Manner as the Congregational El-

* derfhip, from which the Appeal arifeth, are

* enabled' to do by any Ordinance of Parliament ;

* and fhall certify fuch their Proceedings unto the
« faid EJderfhip,

XXII. * That, in cafe of fuch Sufpenfion of

* any Minifter, the Claflis whereunto the faid
' Congregation doth belong, fhall appoint fome
e fit Perfon or Perfons for the Supply of that Place

* during fuch Sufpenfion ; and fhall have Power to
' allow convenient Maintenance for that End, out'

* of the Profits belonging to the Minifter fo fuf-

* pended : And have hereby Power to fequefter and

* employ the fame for that Pufpofe.

XXIII. 4 That in all Cafes of Sufpenfion of
' any Perfon from the Sacrament, the Party fuf-
' pended (upon Manifeftation of his or her Re-
c pentance, before the Elderfhip by whom the'

* Party was fufpended) fhall be admitted again un-
c to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ; and the
4 Sufpenfion thenceforth fliall be void. Provided,
4 That, if the faid Commiflioners, or any Two of

' them,

cf ENGLAND.

them, fhall not determine the Cafe fo certified, An
as aforefaid, to them from the Elderfhipj within
fix Weeks after the Certificate to them made j
the Party is hereby injoined to forbear coming
*o the Sacrament, until the Caufe fhall be de^
termined, or until he give Satisfaction to the
Elderfhipi

.March 1 6. The ttoufes were informed, by Let-
ters from Mr. Secretary Rujbwortb^ of fome more
Succefs gained by the Forces under the Command
of Sir Thomas Fairfax^ in the Wefl of England \
which we fhall give in his own Words, in the
Manner they fland in the Lords ^Journals j obferv-
ing that none of thefe Letters from himfelf are
publifhed in his own Collections^ only fome Ex-
tracts of them given by way of Narrative or Re-
lation ; but thofe from Sir Thy mas Fairfax are
therein printed at large.

Far the Honourable WILLIAM I,EtfTrtALL, Efq.
SPEAKER of the Honourable Houfe O/COMMONS.

F N my laft I acquainted you of the Defeat gi- LetWfS ^^
i- ven the Party of the Lnemy s Horfe, where- to General Fair-
in Major-General Porter and others were taken fax's further Suc-
Prifoners, being on Saturday laft j and alfo of an
Inclination of the Lord Hoptoti to treat, yet,
withall, endeavouring to get Time and a Gela-
tion of Arms, both which were denied ; where-
upon the Army, from their feveral Quarters,
marched on Monday to Probus and Trrgpftw,
within four or five Miles of Trurot the Head
Quarters being at Tregwey^ where our Forlorns
came near unto the Enemy. They flood in
a peaceable Manner, not offering to give Re-
fiftartce, faying there was a Ceflation agreed un-
to, and they hoped there would be a Peace.
Our Officers had much ado to perfuade them,
there was no CdTatidn, and therefore it did be-
hove them rtot to ftay anv longer, but to retire
VOL, XIV, ' T • to

290 We Parliamentary HISTORY

An. ii Car. I. e to their Places of Advantage ; or otherwife our
l64l! ' Officers would, as they might at this prefent have

* done, take Advantage upon them, by falling on

* therm T hey did very kindly thank our Officers
' and Soldiers for their Civility that they did for-

* bear^ there being no Ceflation ; and fo retired

* back< It is conceived the Lord Hopton did bruit.

* this abroad amongft his own Men, as concluded
' by us, to the Intent that our Men might fall foul-
' on them, and fo provoke them to fome defperate

* Engagement j but it had another Effect, for the
' Terror was fuch throughout their Army upon

* Advance of the whole of ours in Sight, that the

* Lord Hopton was enforced to fend a Trumpeter

* at Twelve o'Clock at Night to defire a Parley,

* exprefling his Willingnefs to lofe no Time in

* making an End : And, indeed, if that had not

* come to keep their Men together, they had been

* in great Diforden The Offer was accepted ;

* whereupon, about Three o'Clock in the Morn-

* ing, the Trumpeter was returned with our Com-

* mifiioners Names ; that is to fay, CommhTary-

* General Henry Ireton^ Colonel John Lambert^

* Commiflary-General Stotie, Richard Deane the

* Comptroller of the Ordnance, and Colonel John
« St. Aubin. The Place agreed to treat at was

* Trefillian Bridge, near Truro j the Time, Nine

* o'Clock this Morning, the Treaty to continue

* three Hours after j but the Lord Hopton failed to

* fend his Commiffioners Names till paft Nine.

* Our Army, Horfe and Foot, being at a Rendezvous.

* by Six o'Clock, were advanced from their feve-

* ral Quarters, between Nine and Ten* within

* two Miles of TrurO) the Trumpeter then coming

* with the Commiffioners Names, who are thefe,

* Colonel Charles Goring, Colonel Thomas Panton^

* Colonel Jordan Bodville^ Colonel Marcus Trevor^

* and Sir Richard Pridtauxt Knt, the King's High

* Sheriff of this County, whom they nominated ;
c Colonel John St. Aubin being the High Sheriff
c nominated by the Parliament. They alfo de-

* fired that Colonel Gautier^ a- Frenchman, might

* be

^ENGLAND; 29-1

be added, which was agreed on ; and Captain An. ai Car.
Edward Herle was added to our Commiflioners. . l6**'
The fafe Convoys from both Generals were fent March,
this Day between Ten and Eleven o'Clock, with
a Lettdr from the General to the Lord Hopton^
letting him know that, his Army being on a
March, he intended to quarter at Truro this
Night, which he thought good to give him No-
tice of, that his Forces might withdraw ; and, if
he pleafed, in regard it might be late before the
Treaty might be agreed unto, the Bounds being
fet for each Party to quarter in, there might be
a Ceflation of Arms till To-morrow Morning at
Six o'Clock; by which Time you need not doubt
but all Things will be concluded on.
*' The Sum of the whole will be, as I conceive,
and as Inftru£tions are given according to the
General's firft Proportion, the Lord Hcpton's
Officers and Soldiers muft all lay down their
Arms, yet the Officers to march away with their
Horfe, and fudh Arms as they ufed to wear in
peaceable Times ; and have PafTes to their feveral
Houfes or beyond the Sea, if they defire it, en-
gaging themfelves never to bear Arms againft the
Parliament. The* common Soldiers to deliver
up their Horfes and Arms, and to have 20 s. al-
lowed them a Man to carry them home ; by this
Article I hope there will be good Recruits, and
a good Number of fufficient Horfes got for the
Army. For the Foreigners and Strangers to have
Leave to depart the Kingdom, they likewife en-
gaging themfelves never to bear Arms more
againft the Parliament ; and their Officers to have
their Horfes with them. This, indeed, we are
informed, will fuit well to the Strangers Defires,
they being afraid Quarter would be denied them,
as indeed moft of them do deferve it: But it is in
relation to the Point of Time that thefe Things
are propounded and purfued, to the end that this
Field-Force might be totally fcattered ; and that
the Irijb, which are every Day expected to land
T » « ia

492

Parliamentary HISTORY

March.

An. 21 Car. I. « in thefe Parts, may not have fuch a Body of
I645- c Horfe to join with them.

• This is all the Account lean give of this Bu-
finefs ; and I hope, when it is effected, (of which
you need not doubt) the Confequence will be
greater than it is at prefent expected. God hath
(truck our Enemies Hearts with Fear, otherwife,
having fuch a brave Body of Horfe, they would
not have been compelled to liften to and feek for
a Treaty. In a few Hours there will another
Exprcfs be fent unto you, with the Particulars
of what is concluded on. I thought good to dif-
patch this Mefienger, tho' the Journey be long,
to prevent Mifreports that might go upon this
Bufmefs.'

From the RtnJezvout with-
in ttifo Milts of Truro,

J.RUSHWORTH.

JP» S. c I thought to ftay the fending of this Let"
ter till next Day, and give you this further Ac-
count: Our Army, according to former Purpofe,
marched into Truro, and poflefled themfelves of
the Town, and another Part of it to St. Allon's*
within three Miles of the North Sea, which is
the only Piece of Land the Enemy have left to
break through, if they intend it ; but our Guards
are fo ftrong, and our Quarters fo difpofed of,
that there is not the leaft Fear of it, we having
them now before us in a Pound.
* The Commiffioners met Yefterday about
Three of the Clock, and continued treating till
almoft Ten. Some Progrefs they have made,
but there are fo many Circumftances concerning
the Articles, and the Manner of performing them \
as, how thofe {hall be conveyed that are to go
beyond the Seas ; how thefe are to be conveyed
that are to go to their feveral Homes j 2nd other
Things of that Nature, that it occafioned a Ne-
cefiity laft Night to agree that the Treaty might
be continued for this Day alfo, ard their Com-
miffioners to come this Forenoon to Truro, to

'finiih

$f ENGLAND. 293

finifh the Treaty there. The Ceflation being An. »T Car. I.

zfgreed to, their Soldiers come to our Quarters, l64S«

and we go to theirs ; and they are now fo fully

pofTefled of our fair Intentions towards them,

that it concerned the Lord Hopton to difpatch the

Treaty, elfe he is like to have few to attend

him. The Lord Hopton does really profefs that

he was ignorant of the Prince's Going ; and that

they are Traitors that had a Hand in it : And I

believe that it is a Thing that much works with

him that the Prince fhould be fo carried away.*

Tniro, March nf
Eltvcn at Nton. J.. R.

For the Honturable WILLIAM LENTHAtL, Efq.
SPEAKER of the Honourablt Houfe ^COMMONS,
Ha/lt, Thffe.

SIR,

{Wrote to you this Day of the further Progref*
of the Treaty : It held all this Day, and till
Twelve at Night, and yet could not be finiihed,
though all the material Parts were over ; thofe
which remained, though only circumftantial, yet
fo necefiary to be concluded in order to perfecting
of the Treaty, that more Time is granted for
the finiftiing thereof; fo the Treaty and CefTa-
tion is to continue To-morrow alfo, and the Ren-
dezvous of this Army which (hould have been
To-morrow, is put off till next Day; at which
Time the Enemy is likewife to draw out to a
Rendezvous ; and there according to the Articles,
or as (hall be further agreed on, difmount their
common Troops, and deliver up their Horfes
and Arms.

* The Enemy is fo impatient till the Treaty be
done, that this very Day there hath been no lefs
than between thirty and forty Lieutenant-Colo-
nels, Majors, and Captains come away from the
Enemy to us, befides others that come to vifit
our Quarters that did return this Evening ; like-
wife there came a Captain and forty Gentlemen
T 3 «oC

294 ^be Parliamentary HISTORY

An. at Car. I. < of Quality, with their Horfes and Arms, wh»
l645* < likewife, by the Articles, were to have the Be-
' ne^f °^ tneir Horfes ; and there alfo came fron>

* Penryn ninety- fix common Soldiers with their
' Mufkets, and Matches lighted, and twelve fmce
/ came, and forty more gone another Way ; which
f fo difheartned Col. Trevamon, then with his Re-i
' gitnent at Penryn, as alfo the Governor of the

* Fort of St. Maives near Falmontk^ that they fent
\ to the General late this Evening, defiring to be
' included in the Treaty with the Lord Hopton,
' and have the fame Conditions with the other
' .Officers ; which are Pafles to' go home, and
' Protections to live quietly from the Violence of
(. the Soldiers,

. * We conceive there will be in all (Officers and
' others of Quality being allowed their Horfes ae-

* cording to the Articles) near 2000 Horfe that will
' come to be delivered up to the General ; and tho*
'they ftand us in 2000 /. Horfes and Arms, yet

* they will be' worth I o,OOO /. at leaft to the State ;

* but what is the moft confiderable Thing in this
$ great Bufmefs, is the diflblving of fuch a Strength,

* by which Means the Weft of England is cleared

* of a Fjeld-Enemy, and foreign Adverfaries de-

* prived of th,at Affiftance they did expeft from this
f. Force whilft it was in fo confiderable a Body.

' We d,Q:U.bt not but that Penndenis will, upon
\ the difbanding of thefe Forces, incline to mode-

* rate Terms ; the Governor thereof is a Gentle-
\ man of Quality, and certainly will not be pleafed

* with his 'Inferiors having Liberty of enjoying

* their own, and himfelf as it were in Prison en-

* joying nothing that is his own.

< I cannot exprefs with what Joy moft of the
4 Officers receive thofe Conditions, and wifh they
*, had fooner known our Intentions towards them.
' Thofe that aje the moft difcontented at this Bu-
' finefs, were the Troopers that are to be difmount-
' ed ; but many of them, during this Cefiation^
\ ufed Ways to recompenfe themfelves in a hand-

* fome Manner, and ours too, by exchanging their

* good.

0f ENGLAND. 295

* good Horfes for our bad ones, receiving 20 or 30 s. An. ai Car,

* in Exchange from our Troopers, and referving ' 6*5-

* the bad Horfes to themfelves, in order to have March
' 20 s. upon the Delivery of them up to us again j

' fo we have many of the Horfes already, though
' not according to the Treaty.

' I had Directions to prepare a Letter for the

* Committee of the Army to make Stop of the pro-*

* viding of Horfes for the Train, for that here will
' be 600 to be fpared for that Purpofe, and the reft

* that are ferviceable to be likewife difpofed of for
' the Recruits of the Army.' I am,

SIR,

•Trurt, Marcb ii, Your humble Servant*

j645.

J. RUSHWORTH.

P. S. f I flayed the Meflenger till this Forenoon,
but can add no more than that the Commiffioners
are met ; and, as fome of them tell me, have
almoft finifhed the Treaty. I fhallt as foon as
it is figned by both Sides, feud an Exprefs with
the Contents, Though one Army vifits another
during this Ceflation, yet we are more cjrcum-
fpedt in keeping ftrong Guards than when the
Enemy was moft active againft us. This Morn-
ing 100 Soldiers of Col. Champion's came in with
Mufk.ets, Swords, and Bandaliers.'

j. R.

March 1 8, This Day a Letter from the Earl of
Rutland and Lord Montague was read, giving a
further Account of the Siege of Newark.

TO the Right Honourable the SPEAKER of the Houfe

of PEERS.
My Lord,

""I"" H E Affairs before Newark^ through God's And conferm
' JL Blefling, go on well} Col. Legard's Regi- the S.efe«j>f
f ment is come from York^ and the Officers and New*rt-

* Soldiers are all as one Man to perform the Ser-

T 4 * vice

ffle Parliamentary HISTORY

An. »i Car. j. yice they are appointed, full of Courage and
l6*5- healthful. Half the Line we hope will be finifh-

"'March. e<* on ^e^nej^ay next, and the other with all

poffible Speed. One of the Bridges crofs Trent,
againft Winthorp^ was ready three Days fmce j
the Trent there divides; the other Bridge will
befinifhed in a Day or two. We have brought
a Pinnace Mufket within half a Mile of Newark,
wherein are two Guns, and which will hold 40
Mufketcers. The whole Canon from Turk is
come to pyinthorp. One ftrong Fort is made to
fecure the Bridge, another is preparing near the
Enemy's great Sconce. The whole Culverins
and the Mortar-Pieces are, come to Ealderton
and Farinpdon. Th_e great Mortar-Piece is to
be run on Wednefday at Nottingham. We hope-
in God to lofe no Time, nor omit any Oppor-
tunity in reducing Newark, and to give your
Lordfhip a full, good, and fpeedy Account there-
of.

Tour humble Servants,

Lincoln, March 14,

W J. RUTLAN7D,

E. MONTAGUE.

P. S. « The Earl of Dumfermlini 's Regiment
' of Foot is come to General 'Lejley?

About this Time it was the Commons came tp

The Parliament a Refolution to invite the Prince of Weles into the

ffoiveto invite Parliament's Quarters, and to refide in fuch Place,

tjjc P'j^* tof . with fuch Cpuncjl and fuch Attendance as both

Barters',0 " Houfes (hould think fit tp appoint. The Lords

haying agreed tp this, a Committee of both Houfes

•was appointed to prepare a Letter to be fent to

the General, and in it another of Invitation to the

Prince. It fecms the Houfe of Commons had been

informed, That his Highnefs was got into the Ifle,

, of Scilly, and were in great Pairi left he fhouldl

tranfport himfelf from thence into foreign Parts.

This Committee having prefented a Draught of a

Letter to be feni to the Prince, the Lords agreed

of ENGLAND.

to it, and ordered it to the Commons for their Con- An.
currsnce. There is not a Copy of this Letter en-
tered in cither of the Journals ; but it feems it did March.
not pleafe the Lower Houfe ; for, on the reading
of it, the Queftion was put, Whether to agree
with the Lords in the Letter to be fent to the
Prince? the Houfe divided, Yeas 52, Noes 84;
the Queftion thus patting in the Negative, another
Committee of their own Houfe alone was then
appointed to meet that Afternoon, and prepare a
Letter to be fent to the Prince, according to the
Vote of both Houfes, to invite him into the Parlia-
ment's Quarters : But tho* the Lords fent down a
Meffage to urge them to fend this Letter away, be-
caufe they faid it might prevent great Inconve-
uiences, yet we hear no more of it for fome Days*

March 23. The whole Bufinefs of the Houfe
of Lords, this Day, was reading a Letter which
gave an Account of the Parliament's Succefs in
different Parts of the Kingdom ; particularly, from
the JVejl of England^ where Sir Thomas Fairfax
had reduced the Lord Hopton, and the Forces un-
der his Command, to fo low a State, that thejr
•were obliged to furrcnder themfelves on the beft
Articles they could get. Thefe are inferted, at
length, in the Lords 'Journals, together with a
Letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax on the Occafion ;
and are rjl printed in Mr. Rufiwortfr 's Collections (h}.

The very fame Day came Letters from others
of the Parliament's Commanders, with an Account
of a fignal Viclory gained over the King's Forces,
near Stow on the IVold, in Glouceflerjhire, where -r
in Sir 'Jacob Aflley, the King's General, was taken
Prifoner. The Manner how is beft related by
their own Words. And firft a Letter to Tbomai
Efq. a Member of the Houfe :

Honoured Friend^

Ccording to the Command I received from Defeat ef the

A

the Right Honourable the Committee of King'

both Kingdoms, I drew out from Hereford 6co

Horfe (x
(b) Vol. VJ. p. 109, fife.

Marck.

The Parliamentary HISTORY*

Horfe and Foot, with which I joined on tht
Lord's Day laft, with Col» Morgan's and the
Evejham Forces. I led my own Men in Perfon,
and fo we lay waiting, about Evejham, the Ene-
my's Motion for fix Days together, every Day
expecting to be engaged. The Enemy came
over the River Avon very ftrong, as it was report-
ed 3000, and fo came before us to Stow this
Morning ; but we followed them clofe all Night,
and this Morning, about Break of Day, we joined
Battle i and after a hot Difpute, very hard and
dubious, we rooted them and took Prifoners the
General himfelf, with divers Colonels, Captains,
and other Commiffion-Officers, the Particulars
whereof I cannot yet fend up, having (lain about
200 upon the Place with little Lofs of ours. We
give God the Glory of all. Sir, I befeech you,
excufe my Brevity at prefent, being upon our
March back, and continue to believe me

Stevr, March 2i>

1645.
Fivt in the Evening.

Tour mojl real Servant ,

JO. BIRCH.

The next was addrefTed to the Speaker of the
Houfe of Commons,

SIR,

GO D, blefled be his Name, hath refcued us
as glorioufly and grac^pufly this Day as in
many of his former and great Mercies. After
two Nights and a Day's March we came to Co-
lonel Morgan and Col. Birch, about three of the
Clock this Morning, near Stow and Caftle. flil/s
We felf on between, four and five. It was car-
ried on fomewhat doubtfully, and almoft danger^
oufly, at firft ; but God renewed our Courage to.
gain the Day. We have taken Sir Jacob AJllcy
Prifoncr, and fome Colonels and Lieutenant-Co-
lonels alfo, and all the Foot with their Arms.
At Leifure will give the Particulars. God who

hatlx

^ENGLAND. 299

'. hath done all muft have the Glory. The Lord An. ai Car. r.

* increafe our Thankfulnefs more and more.

SIR,

$t*ro, IMarcbii, 16451

Sevep o'clock in th« / am your Servant,

Morning.

W. BRERETON.

P. S. ' The Bearer was an Eye-Witnefs, and
f can fay more ; rnyfelf can teftify the moft gallant

* and valiant Behaviour of our two above-named
fr Colonels Birch and Morgan*

Both the foregoing Letters feem to promife the
Particulars of this Battle which proved fo fatal to
the King's Affairs ; but we find no more of them
in the Journals : However, in the Pamphlets of
thefe Times, we meet with the following Narrative
addrefTed to the Speaker of the Houfe of Com-
mons ; there is no Name fubfcribed to it, but it
is faid, in the Title-Page, to be wrote by a Gentle-
man of Quality and Credit under Sir William
Erereton ; and runs thus (e) :

Honourable Sir,

* A Ccording to my Engagements, I fliall give

* J\ you an Account of the Proceedings of our

* Forces, in reference to our great Victory at
c Stow. Sir William Brereton having Intelligence

* of Sir Jacob Jlftleys March, and being invited

* by valiant and active Colonel Morgan, to follo\y
' and fet upon him, he forthwith marched from

* Litcbfield with about loco Horfe to Colejhill, an<J

* from thence through Warwick Town toward
« Stratford upon Avon; where Sir William had In-
f telligence that Col. Morgan was returned back
< as far as Camden, by reafon of his Intelligence of
« the Croflings and Counter-Marches of Sir Jacob

* AJIlev ; infomuch that Sir William Brercton was
{ forced (out of his earneft Defire to meet and join

with

(«) Printed by M. Simovt and J. Macotk, 1646.

Jin. a i Car. I.

1645-

The Parliamentary HISTORY

with Morgan^ as was mainly intended) to march
up and down, backward and forward, at leaft
thirty Miles, to overtake him, and at laft did fo ;
and then being joined, we all marched about a
Mile, by which Time the Scouts had brought
us Word that the Enemy was drawn up into a
Body near Stow on the WcU^ at which all our
Soldiers greatly rejoiced, being very defirous to
engage.

* Then we marched the whole Army in Bat-
talia > and, after we had difcovered them alfo
ftanding in Battalia, xve faced them an Hour be-
fore we fought, both Sides waiting and longing
for Day Light. Then Sir William Brereton and
Col. Morgan agreed, without any Difference, in
drawing up of the Army, which was ordered as
follows : Sir William Brereton led the Right
Wing of Horfe, which were thofe that came with
him from Litchfield; and the Gloucejlerjbtre Men
were placed in the Left Wing j Col. Morgan him-
felf moft gallantly led the Van, Our Word was,
God be our Guide \ the Enemy's Word was,
Patrick and George..

' Upon the firft Charge the Enemy forced our
Left Wing to a diforderly Retreat, by over-
powering them ; fo that the Vidlory, at firft,
feemed fomewhat doubtful ; but Sir William
Brcreton moft bravely going on with the Right
Wing of Horfe, and, at leaft, 2,00 Firelocks,
fiercely charged their Left, both of Horfe and
Foot, and totally routed them. In which brave
Piece of Service, undaunted and valiant Major
Hcnvkfworth had a principal Hand, and was a
main Help, utterly to rout and put to flight all
the Left Wing of the Enemy. Col, Morgan,
by this Time, performed his Charge fo bravely
alfo, and with fo much Courage and good Suc-
cefs, that having rallied his Men up gallantly
again againft the Enemy, he put them alfo to an
ab foliate Rout ; and fo they purfued them into
Stow, killing and wounding many in the Town,

« both

6f EN GLAND. 301

c both .Gentlemen and Officers of Quality ; and An' *' Cw

* in this Purfuit Major 'Haivkfiuorth's Man (as I t 76*5'

* was credibly informed) took the Lerd Aftley Pri-
' foner, and all his Foot-Officers were then alfo
' taken Prifoners ; and Sir Charles Lucas (as was

.* credibly reported) was then alfo taken in the
4 Fight, but immediately after refcued by a Party

* of Firelocks of the Enemy, and on his Refcue

* fled into the Wood hard by for hoped Safety ; but

* after the Fight, our Forces fearching the Wood

* for Straglerc, found there the faid Sir Claries
4 LucaSy even he who formerly had done the

* King great Service in the Nortbt and was Go-
' vernor of Berkley Caflle ; but now was taken
' Prifoner again and put into fafe Cuftody.

* This moft remarkable Piece of Service being
' thus fuccefsfully performed, and Sir Jacob Aftlcy

* being taken Captive, and wearied in this Fight,

* and being ancient (for old AgeVSilver Hairs had

* quite covered over his Head and Beard) the Sol-
' diers brought him a Drum to fit and reft himfelf
' upon ; who being feated, he faid (as I was moft

* credibly informed) unto our Soldiers, Gentlemen^
4 ye may now Jit down and play, for you have done
4 all your Work^ if you fall not out among yourfelves.

* Meaning, indeed, that, now he being thus

* beaten, the King had never another Army in the
' Field in the whole Kingdom.

4 There was taken in this famous Fight and

* glorious Victory, Sir Jacob Ajlley, alias Lord

* Ajlley^ the General; Sir Charles Lucas \ Colonels,
4 Corbft, Gerrard, Moulfivortk ; LL-utenant-Co-

* lonel Broughton ; 3 Majors ; 17 Captains j 16

* Lieutenants, their Marmall-General ; 1 1 En-

* figns ; 5 Cornets; 3 Quarter- Mufters, theSur-

* geon, and Sir JPilliam Vaugban's Chaplain ; 2000

* Arms at leaft, and all their Ammunition, Bag
4 and Baggage. A brave, famous, and moft fca-
4 fbnable Victory it was indeed ; and a moft hopeful

* Way and Means of a fpeedy End, by: God's

* Mercy, of all the inteftine Wars and bloody

4 Broils

I

302 *The Parliamentary HISTORY

Ao. M Car. I.« Broils in the Kingdom. To God alone be all
'a J6*fr e the Honour and Glory thereof/

This laft Victory produced the following' Order.

A Thankfgiving « Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parlia-
Day appointed c t Ambled, That on Thurfday Se'nnignt

by Parliament on __ -. , _rr , , . » T-V

that Occafioa. ' and Thurfday three Weeks, being the Days ap-

* pointed to be fet apart for Days of publick

* Thankfgivings in the Cities of London and Wejl-

* minjler.-) and in the other Parts of the Kingdom>

* for the Succefs of the Army in the Weft under
c the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax^ General,

* That the feveral Minifters-do, on the faid Days,
' take particular Notice of the Bleffing of God up-
*'on the Forces of the Parliament in taking Sir
' 'Jacob AJlley Prifoner, and totally routing and de-

* feating the Forces under his Command, near

* Stow in the County of Gloucefttr*

For the I aft mentioned Defeat of the Lord Hep-
Ion in the ~Weft> and all the other great Services
General Fairfax had done the Parliament, having
been the moft fortunate Commander, in one Cam-
paign, that ever led an Army, the Houfes could
do no lefs than join in the following Letter of
Thanks to him ; which was ordered to be entered
in their Journals^ in perpetuam Rei Memoriarrt.

To the Right Hon. S.r THOMAS FAIRFAX,
General of the Forces under the Command of tht
Parliament,

S I'R,

And a Letter of ' f T7 E are commanded, by both Houfes of
Congratulation « \Y Parliament, to exprefs the great Senf«

lent to Sir Tho- »LI r rim> j/--i_ri

ma» Fairfax on tnev "ave °» your a<-»vej vigorous, and faithful

hw late Success. « Difcharge of that Truft which they haverepofed

' in you. They do obferve how happily you have

* timed, and how prudently you have carried on,

* all your Defigns and Actions j and do very much

4 ' approve

«f ENGLAND.

* approve ypur Judgment in the Way of gaining A

* the Enemies Army and the County of Cornwal

* under your Power in fo fliort a Space, and with V
« fo little Lofs of Englljh Blood ; which, added to

* your former Endeavours and Succefies, hath put

* the Affairs of the Parliament, in this Beginning

* of the Year, into fuch a Condition as was be-

* yond their Hopes and Expectations, for which
' we are commanded to return you their hearty
' Thanks : And as they are refolved to give ample

« Teftimony to the World of the high Efteem J

* they have of your Perfon and Merit, fo they de-
' fire you to let all the Officer$ and Soldiers under

* your Command to know they (hall not forget
4 their unwearied Labours and Sufferances in this
4 great and glorious Caufe. We reft

Tour very loving Friends^ i

MANCHESTER, Speaker of
the Houfe of Peers pro Tempbre.

W. LENTHALL, Speaker of
the Commons Houfe in Parliament.

The laft Bufmefs of this Day was reading a
Letter from the Scots Commiffioners, fliort enough
in Words, as well as in Expreffion. It related
to the Affair of the unknown Perfons, before men-
tioned, their Defamers ; and is figned by them all
in order to fhew they were in earneft.

7* the Right Honsurable the Speaker of the Houfe of
PEERS pro Tempore.

My Lord,

* f T is about two Months fmce we acquainted
4 * the Houfe about the falfe Informations of

* Robert Wright and the unknown Knight, and
' defired the Name of the one to be difcovered, and

* fpeedy Examination concerning the other ; in
' purfuance thereof the earneft Defires of the King-

* dom of Scotland have been made known to the

' Houfes,

304 Tfo Parliamentary HISTORY"

An. zi Car. I. *• Houfes* and ours have been renewed from Tirrie
to Time; we being moft confident that Juftice,
March, would never be denied by the Houfes to the King-

dom of Scotland, in a Matter wherein they were
fo highfy concerned : Now, for difcharging of the
Truft committed unto us, we hold ourfelves in
Duty bound once again to prefs a fpeedy Anfanr
from- the Honourable Houfes to our juft Denres,
expecting it fhall be fuch as all the World may
receive Satisfaction that thofe Informations ar€
but Lies and Calumnies.'

Worttfler - tfoufe,
, ,64,.

Tour Lord/hip's
Mojl affefllonate Friends

BALMERINO,
LAUDERDALE,
A. JOHNSTON,

and humble Servant*,

LOUDON,
H. KENNEDY,
P. BARCLAY.

Another
fcge, Mard
from the King
for Peace.

March 24. The laft remarkable Affair of this
Year, is another Meffage from the King, prefented
this Day, to the Lords, by their Speaker, and read
as follows :

For the SPEAKER of the Houfe of P E E R s pro
Tempsre. To be communicated to the two
Houfes of Parliament at Wejlminfter*

CHARLES R.

Mef- 7V7 Otwithjlanding the unexpected Silence inftead of
rch 23, AT Anfwer to his Majefly1^ many and gracious
MefTagcs to both Houfes, whereby it may appear that
they defire to obtain their Ends by force rather than
Treaty i which may jujlly dif courage his Majejly from
any more Overtures of that Kind; yet his Oaajejly
conceives hejhall be much wanting to his Duty to God,
and in -what he oiveth to the Safety of his People, if
he Jhould not intend to present the great Inconveniences
thai may otherwise hinder a fafe and well-grounded
Peace. His Mcjejly therefsre now propoj'eth that

^ENGLAND; 305

•ffo he may have the Faith of both Houfes of Portia* *•*• *T Car> li

went for the Prefervation of his Honour, Perfon, and v__ *5
E/t ate, and that Liberty le given to all thofe who do
and have adhered to his Majejly, to go to their own
Houfes, and there to live •peaceably, enjoying their Ef~
tates, all Sequejlrations being taken off", without being
co?npelled to take any Oath not injoined by the undoubt-
ed Laws of the Kingdom, or being put to any other
Molejlation whatfoever) he will immediately difband
oil his Forces, and difmantle all his Garrifons ; and
being accompanied with his Royal, not his Martial,
Attendance, return to his two Houfes of Parliament,
and there refide with them. And, for the better Se-
curity of all his Majejlys Subjects, he propofeth that
he, with his faid two Houfes, immediately upon his
coming to Weftminfter, will pafs an Aft of Obli*
vion and free Pardon ; and where his Majejty will
further do whatfoever they will advife him for -the
Good and Peace of this Kingdom.

And as for the Kingdom of Scotland, his Maje/ty
hath made no Mention of it here, in regard of thf
great Lofs of Time which mujl noiv be fpent in ex*
pefling an Anfwer from thence ; but declares that,
immediately upon his coming to Weftminfter, he will
apply himfelf to give them all Satisfaction touching
that Kingdom.

If his Majefy could pojjibly doubt the Succefs of
this Offer, he could ufe many Arguments to perfuatle
them to it ; but Jhall only infi/i on that great cne of
giving an /w//W? Peace to theft afflicted Kingdoms. "

Given at our Court at Oxford, the 23d of M&ch,
1645. •

The Lords fent this Letter down to the Com*
tnons, with a Defire that it might be communi-
cated to the Scots Commifiioners ; and, as there
were divers Particulars in it, whereof, they faid,
an happy Ufe might be made, conducing to the
Peace of the three Kingdoms, they defired that a
Committee ef both Houfes might be appointed to
confidcr of the Letter, to frame an Anfwtr, and to

VOL. XIV. U fend

306 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. »i Car. i. fen(] jt> by the joint Confent of all, both EngKJb

*--. '345' -..' an<* Scots, to his Majefty : But this we poft-

March. pone to its due Order of Time.

Thus ended the legal Year 1645 : A Year
which has produced a greater Variety of intereft-
ing Affairs than any hitherto, fmce the firft Meet-
ing of this Parliament. A fhort Digreflion,

therefore, by way of Review of fome Tranfa&ions

New Writs iflued Pa^' zn^ '^u^rating what is to come, may here be

forfupplyingVa- very neceffary.

«ancies in the It has already been obferved, in the Beginning

°f C°m" ofl°ur Ninth Volume- That within twelve Months
after the Battle of Nafeby, in "June 1645, near
150 Writs were iffued out by the Houfe of Com-
mons, for fupplying the Places of fuch Members as
were dead, and of others who had been difabled
from fitting there in 1642 and 1643, for taking

Part with the King. Thefe Vacancies, which

amounted to full one Third Part of the Houfe,
(many Writs being ilTued for two Members)
were filled up moftly by thofe that were of the
Independent Party : A Circumftance which will
help to account for the Divifions upon contefted
Queftions being larger than ufual, and alfo for the
much greater Changes that enfued.

1 his Aftair took its Rife from a Petition pre-
fented by the Burgefles of SoKthwark^ in Augitft
1645, defiringa new Ek&km ; Mr. White ^ one of
their Members, being dead, and Mr. Eagjhaw^ the
other, difabled by Vote (a). The Account of the
Debate thereof, which happened on the 1410, is
thus given by Mr. IVkitlocke (b}\ * Some were of
Opinion a new Election might prove inconvenient
and of Danger : Others prefied it as the Right of the
Subject to have Burgelfes : Upon the Quefticn,
To defer it for a Month longer, it was carried in
the Negative, and the Houie refolved into a Grand
Committee to confider of it. Accordingly, on the
2 lit, this Matter was refumed, and it was carried,

by

(a} See Vol. IX. p. 4. (*) Mincria.'s, p. 160.

*f ENGLAND, 307

by three Voices (e], to have new Elections ; and the An. ai Car,

Speaker was ordered to iflue out his Warrants to 164?'

thatPurpofe; but with this Reftri&ion, * Tnat no *

' Perfon ele&ed ftiould fit in the Houfe till he took

' the Covenant.' And on the firft of September it

was refohed, * That no Perfon fliould be chofen

* who had borne Arms againft the Parliament.*

General Liidlwfs Account of this Matter runs
thus (d] : c The Houfe of Commons finding their
Bufinefs to increafe, and their Numbers to dimi-
nifh, by the Death of fome, and Defertion of
others to the King at Oxford, ordered the Commif-
fioners of the Great Seal to iffue out Writs to fuch
Counties, Cities, and Boroughs, as the Houfe, by
their particular Order, (hould direct, for the Elec-
tion of Members to ferve in Parliament: •

But their beft Friends were not without Fears what
the Iflue of their new Elections might be ; for
though the People durft not chufe fuch as were
open Enemies to them, yet probably they would
fuch as were mod likely to be for a Peace upon any
Terms, corruptly preferring the Fruition of their
Eftates and fenfual Enjoyments before the Public
Intereft ; which Sort of Men were no lefs dange-
rous than the other : And therefore honeft Men,
in all Parts, did what they could to promote the
Kle&ion of fuch as were moft hearty for the Ac-
compiifhment of our Deliverance ; judging it to
be of the higheft Importance fo to wind up Things,
that we might not be over-reached by our Enemu s
in a Treaty, that had not been able to contend
with us in open War.'

The Diaries, or printed News-Papers, of thefe
Times afford us fome very wholcfome Inftrudions
to the Country on this Occafion, too remarkable
to be pafTed over :

Chuff Men of all: Parts, Knowledge, Courage,

And Expreflion ; Profeffors of Religion, exa£l in all

U 2 Duties,

(c) The Jamiii confirm this Circumft.ince of tbree Voices, the
Nvr.'oers being 6 } apainlt Gfc : But it appears by thofc Authorities,
"That th- Di vn ton was upon ihe rlrft Qjjcltion Auguji I4tb, and n^1
«n:h22»t

•a . Memcires, Vol. I. p. 1 6;, and 1 6*.

308 The Parliamentary HISTO'RY

An. ai Car. I. Duties , holy towards God, and jujl towards all Men :
free from Covetoufnefs, OppreJJion, and Partiality:
Chafe" none that have any Dependance upon another^
for fuch cannot be yours further than another will per-
mit ; chufe thofe as have Eflates in your Counties, and
not fuch as want to get Eftates by their Country's Ruin ;
Chufe Juch as have been Oppofers cf illegal Taxes ,
Loans , Ship-Money, and Monopolies. Take heed not
to chufe any Man that has been a Receiver of the
People's Money, without his firjl making a clear Ac-*
count to the Kingdom. Lajily, "Judge of your Candi-
dates by their Lives and Practices, not by their fiords,
PrcfiffionSi or Protections ; for though a Man's
Faith Jhall jujlify him before God, yet the Faith of the
Men you eleft ought to be manifejled to you by their
Attlons.

But how ineffb&ual all thefe Admonitions were,
appears by the many Unconftitutional Methods
made Ufe of to carry Ele&ions, at this Grin's, in
Warwickjhire, Berkjhire, Cambridgeshire, Stafford"
Jhire, Somerfetflrire, and other Parts of the King-
dom ; all which are related at large by thefe /#-
telligencers, but are far too tedious for ourPurpofe;
and the more unneceffary, as they are thus very
briefly, and very juftjy, recapitulated by Lord Holies
in his Memoirs (*).

' In the long Summer Vacation of the Year
1645, when very many of the Members were
gone into their fcveral Countries, they [the Inde-
pendent Party] fall upon that Point of recruiting
the Houfe ; and notwithftanding the Thinnefs
thereof, and its being furprized with that Debate,
their Creatures, me ft of them there, (as they were
always fure of feme fifty Voices, Perfcns whofe
only Employment \vas there to crudge and carry
on their Maflers Wcrk, bavins; thertby a Great-
nefe far above the Sphere they had formerly moved
in ; whereas the others were Gentlemen \vho had
Eftates which required their locking after, md all
cf them forre Vocations, either for their particu-
lar Luilneii, or Plealurc, which made them Ids di i-

gcnt,

^ENGLAND. 309

gent, and many of them, as at other Times, fo then An- n Car. j.
away) yet they carried it but by three Voices. l6^

4 Then to Work they go to canvafs for Elec- jviwclu~ ^
tions in all Places, for the bringing in of fuch as
(Itould be wholly theirs. Firfl they did all they
could to ftop Writs from goinj any whither but
where they were fure to have fit Men chofen for
their Turns, and many an unjuft Thing was done
by them in that Kind : Sometimes denying Writs,
fometimes delaying till they had prepared all
Things, and made it, as they thought, cock-fure:
Many Times Committee-Men in the Country,
fuch as were their Creatures, appearing _;rofsly, and
bandying to carry Elections for them ; fometimes
they did it fairly by the Power of the Army, cauf-
ing Sc'dicrs to be fent and quartered in the Towns
where Elections were to be, awin^ and terrifying,
fometimes abufmg, and offering Violence to, the
Electors. And when thefe undue Elections were
complained of, and queftioned at the Committee
of Privileges, there appeared fuch palpable Partia-
lity, fo much Injuftice, fuch Delays and Tricks to
vex Parties grieved and their Witnefies, fuch coun-
tenancing and defending thofe who had done the
Wrong, as it diflieartened every Body, and made
many even fit down, and give over Profecution/

Thus much by way of Illuftration, proceed we
now with the Buunefs of both Houfes,

March 25. The Journals of this Year be;nn
• i i v» '• •> i i i- n 1-1 Anno 1646.

with the raniameni: s monthly rait, which now

fell out on the Feaft of the Annunciation, or Lady-
Day : But both the Fealh and Fafts of the

Church had been fome Time abolifheJ, to make
Way for the new Inftitutions of Parliamentary
Fafts and Thankfgivings.

March 26. This Day was almoft wholly taken
Up by the Lords in confulering the Proportions for
Peace to be fent to the King, and his Majefty's
but nothing concluded in either :
U 3

A Letter from
JVfr. Stnckl.nd,
the Parliarcrnt's
Befidcnt at the
Hague.

3 1 o Tfo Parliamentary H i s T o R r

An. ai Cw. I. Therefore, for Want of News at home, we in-
l646' v fert fome more from abroad, communi ated by the
March. Parliament's Agent in Holland, in the following
Letter : !f

for the Right- Hon. the Lord GREY of Warke,
Speaker of. the Houfe of LORDS, London.

Right Honourable,

TH E Duke of Orleans had given Orders to
prepare a Fleet of Ships, of which he had
appointed one Capt. Foran, a Frenchman, who
hath been in the States Service ever fmce the
Lofs of Rochell, to be Admiral : The Number of
Ships were to be 24, of which 14 are hired.
The Intent of this was againft the Parliament,
as appeared by Gaffe's Letters (f~). : This fame
Goffe sjid Webjler and others, were about it at
the Hague; but the States have refolved that
Fleet fhall not go out, at which the Enemies of
our Kingdom are much troubled ; having con-
ceived to themfelve§ very great Things from this
Preparation, of which breaking the Trade of
London was one.

* 1 remember your Lordfhips wrote to me, that
you had fonie Conference with the Dutch Am-
baflador concerning the Growth of the Crown of
France* and your Thoughts of it j the late Fears
and Jealoufies of a Match betwixt France and
Spain, and that the Portion fhould be the tranf-
ferring the Provinces, now held by the Spaniard^
to the French, hath fo fully made good what your
Lordfhips then faid, that all the Afiuranccg the
Refident of France Here, or the French themfelves
to the States Ambafladors at Paris, (that the Of-
fers of the Spaniards are fully rejected by the

(f) Tljefe Letters are all publiflied at large in Hi'fkancTi Cdleflioni,
f». 8$j, & jeq. (Fol. Edit printed in 1646) under the Title of
^be lord George Digby's Cubintt, and Dr. Goffe's Negrt'tatitnt ; to-
eitbtr itritb ibis MajcQy's, the Queen's, the Larii Jermyn's, and utter
\Lttttn, taken at the Battle of Sherborn, in Yoikflure, atsx: tot
\yocf Oityber, 164.;,

^ENGLAND. 3u

c Queen Regent of France, and that the French An. a* Car. ft

' will not treat but conjointly by the States') is not 1646.

' enough to fettle their Fears and Apprehenfions ;

' and to induce them not to think it fit to make the

' Spaniards Affairs fo defperate, as to oblige them

' to grant fuch Conditions to the French ; but ra-

< ther inclined to treat with them, and fo make a

* Peace : Yet, as I faid, the French Minifters do

* abundantly endeavour to take away thefe Jea-

* loufies, by alluring the States that the Queen of
6 France doth willingly reject the Offer the Spa-
' niards made here, of referring the Differences be-

* twixt the two Crowns to her and the Duke of
' Orleans, the Prince of Conde and Cardinal Ma-
' zarine \ and that the Queen and Cardinal Ma-

* zarlne will not treat with the Spaniard but at

* Munftery and by communicating all to the States,
' Yet this is not enough, as it feems, for they feern
' more inclined to treat at Munfter than, as they

* were wont, to follicit France for the ufual Subfi-
6 dies that State yearly gives them, (to come into

* the Field with a good Army and extraordinary
' Affiftance) with which they were wont to raife

* new Men.

' My Lord, thefe Things feem to me to deferve

* the Thoughts of the Parliament, and to think

* whether now be not a Seafon for us to confider

* our Interefts here, when we feem to have AcU
' vantages which will not laft always. I am,

My
Hague, March •—,

1 646. TCour Lordjhip's humble Servant ,

WALTER STRICKLAND,

March 30. The Lords made an Order to take
into Contideration, the next Day, how the Coun-
ties of the Kingdom might be cafed of the Tax-.
ations and Afleftments lying upon them, fince it
had pleafed God to give fuch Succefs to the
Forces under the Command of the Parliament,

and

312 7be Parliamentary HISTORY,

Car. I. and there being now no vifible Army that the
King had ; but nothing was done in this very im-
portant Point till fome Time after.

The fame Day both Houfes agreed on the Form
of a Letter to be fent to the ^Prince of Wales i
which was in b<zc Verba :

S I R,

. f CT~'KE Lsrds and Commons ajfembled in the Par-
both Hcofcs to /iament of England, being informed that your

the Prince of Higbnefs is lately removed into the Ijle of Scilly, have
commanded us in their Names, to invite you to come
forthwith into their Quarters ; and to re fide in fuch
Place, and with fuch Council and Attendants about
yo:i, as the two Houfes Jhall think fit to appoint.
^his being all we have in Charge, we take Leave ta

Your Highnefs's humble Servants,

MANCHESTER.
Speaker of the Houfe of Peers,
pro Tempore.

WILLIAM LENTHALL,

Speaker of the Commons Houfe

in Parliament.

Their Orden in ^7rr* 31- The following Vote of the Houfe of
Fife of the Kin'g't Commons was fent up to the Lords for their Concur-
rence, ' That in cafe the King, contrary to the
Advice of the Houfes of Parliament already gi-
ven him, (hould come, or attempt to come,
within the Lines of Communication j that then
the Committee of the Militia of London fhall have
Power, and are hereby enjoined, upon Adv'ice
had with the Committee of the LorJs and Com-
mons for the Army, to raife fuch Forces as they
(hall think neceflary to prevent any Tumult that
may arife by his Coming ; to fupprefs any that
(hall happen ; to apprehend and lecure fuch as
{hall come with him ; to prevent Refort to him,

•f ENGLAND. 313

f and to fecure his Perfon.' This the Lords An. a* Or. I.

agreed to, with the Addition of the Words from v_ f

Danger. April.

April. This Month begins with an Order for a
general Thanksgiving, for the great Succefs of the.
Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax againft the Ene-
my in the #"£//, in breaking and deftroying their
Armies, and giving them up into the Hands of ths
Parliament.

Next, the Lords went into a Committee to de-j
bate an Ordinance for Martial Lave, when feme
Alterations and Provifoes were added to it. Then
the whole was read a third Time, and the Quef- Proteft relating
tion being put, Whether to agree to this Ordinance r.° an Ordnance
now read ? it was carried in the Affirmative. The tor L*tr"

following Lords, before the putting the Queftion,
defired Leave to enter their DilTents, if it was cr.r-
ried againft them ; and they figned accordingly :
ESSEX. MANCHESTER. WILLOUGHBY.

LINCOLN. BOLISQBROKE. BERKELEY.
SUFFOLK. ROBERTS. ERUCE.

Though this Ordinance was to continue in Force
only three Months j yet as it gave Occaiion :o a
Proteft, an Abftract thereof may not be impro-
per (#) : Hereby Sir 'Thomas Fairfax^ Major-Gene-
ral Skippsn^ and about forty more, Officers, Civi-
lians, and common Lawyers, or any twelve or
more of them, were appointed a Court-Martial
within London and JVeJlmlnfter^ and the Lines of
Communication, to lit on all fuch as dould offend
againft the Articles following :

i. ' None to go from the Parliament's to the
' King's Quarters, or correfpond with the Enemy
* without Leave, on Pain of Death or other cor-
' poral Punilhinent.

2. « Nor

(«) This Qrdinarvt is givtn at large In RxJbvKrtb't Co8*8;;~t.
Vol. VI. p. 152, aid Hufkandft, p. 874. In the hue; of thtJie afl

of iLe CvmoaJioocii aie poiuc

Parliamentary HISTORY

2. ' Nor harbour or relieve, knowingly, anyone
in Arms againft the Parliament, on the fame Pe-
nalty.

3. * He who (hould furrender or betray any
« ftrong Place, contrary to the Rules of War, to
< fuffer Death.

4. ' Nor mutiny, under the fame Penalty.

5. «• To fuffer an Officer, taken by the Parlia-

* ment, to efcape, if wilfully, Death ; if negli-

* gently, corporal Punifhment.

6. ' All who, having taken the Covenant, {hall
c yet take Arms againft the Parliament, to die
' without Mercy ; as mould alfo all Deferters.

7. ' Whoever comes from the King's Quarters,
' or has been there for a Month paft, or borne

* Arms againft the Parliament, and fhall come

* into their Quarters without a Pafs, Drum, or

* Trumpet, and not render himfelf within forty-

* eight Hours, to die without Mercy ; as alfo all

* Spies.

* The faid Commiflioners were impowered to

* iffue Warrants, to fit at their Difcretion, and ap-
' pointed a Judge- Advocate and Provoft-Marfhal ;

* and all Mayors and Sheriffs to be aiding, fcfr.

* But this Ordinance not to extend to any Member
4 of either Houfe ; no Sentence to pafs but upon

* Teftimony of two WitnefTes, or Confeflion of the
1 Party ; no Execution of Death till after iix Days

* Notice to both Houfes.'

The Anfwer to the King's laft Mejjage being at
length agreed to by both Houfes and the Scots
Commiffione.'S, it was ordered to be fent, under
Cover, to Sir Thomas Glemham, Governor of Ox-
ford^ where the King yet was, by a Trumpeter.
This Anfwer is very concife, and ran in thefe
Words :

May it pleafe your Majejly,

tVPartiament's « ITT E your humble and loyal Subjects of both
Kin^rila lMcf ' Kingdoms, having received your Letter of

&gs, ' the 23d Inft. do humbly return this Anfwer^

* That

tf

ENGLAND.

That until Satisfaction and Security be given to An
both your Kingdoms, and for the Reafons men-
tioned in our Anfwer to your former Letters,
your Majefty's coming here cannot be for your
own Good nor your Kingdoms, nor by us ad-
mitted : But your Majefty's Aflent unto the Pro-
pofttions, which we intend fpeedily to prefent, will
be the effectual Means to give the Satisfaction
and Security wedefire.'

April 3. An Ordinance was agreed to, by both Their Ordinance
Houfes, for baniming all Papifts from the Cities of ^ jjj^ *^J^
London and Wejlminjler, and all other Places with- London.
in the Lines of Communication j together with all
Officers, Soldiers of Fortune, and other Perfons,
who have borne Arms againft the Parliament, in
three Days Time. If, after that, they were feen
whhin the faid Limits, they were to be declared
Spie.s, and to fuffer, by Martial-Law, accordingly.
This Precaution was taken to prevent any Tu-
mults which might happen, if the King came to
London ; for notwithstanding the Parliament's po-
fitive Refufal, in their laft Letter to him, they
were in great Apprehenfions of a Vifit from his
Majefty.

A Letter from the Earl of Rutland and Lord
Montague was this Day read to the LorJs ; in
which were Copies of the Summons fent into
Newark, and the Governor's Anfwer to it. The
Letter we fhall give as follows ; but the others be-
ing printed in Mr. Rujhworth, we mall content our-
felves with referring to his Collettions for them(m).

For the Right Honourable the SPEAKER of the Hotife
of PEERS pro Tempore.

May it pleafe your Lordjbip,

N Saturday laft we met with the Earls of
London arid DumfenrJine, the Lord Ealcar- ccr
rast Sir David Hume, Sir Thomas Ker, Sir Tho- of

* ma s

(m) Rafitoortb't Cofafiioni, VoL VI, p. a 5 I.

3 1 6

Tie Parliamejitary HISTORY

Car. I. c mas Rttthen^ Mr. Glendlnmng, and Mr. John-
Jion, Committees of the Parliament of Scotland -,
and did, that Day, agree upon and fend Summons
into Newark, We have inclofed fent your
Lordfhips Copies of our Summons and the An-
fwer j and, fince the Mercy of the Parliament is
neglected, we hope, by fuch other Means as
God and the Parliament have put into our Hands,
ere long to reduce that Place.
' The Yorkjhire Committee have wrote to us to
be difengagcd from the Promile of Repayment of
what the Counties of Lincoln, Leicejhr, and Not-
tingham ihcultl, for the prefent, lay out for the
Quarters of the Yorkjhire Horfe, in regard their
Ordinance was expired ; and that they fenfibly
find, by Experience, they are not like to raife
any confiderable Sums of Money fo long as the
Scots Horfe continue their heavy Burthens upon
that County; we therefore (for that without pre-
fent Payment thcfe Counties cannot provide for
thofe Horfe) (hall be necefiitated to fend them
into Yorkjhire ; and the Line being now finifhed,
we hope they may be fparej without much Pre-
judice to the Service.

' Colonel PoyKtz doubts not but prefently to
turn the River quite into a new Channel, that
their Mills may not be hc-lpful to them, or the
Water hinder the Approaches on the North Side
Trent. The Field-Officers have viewed the
moft convenient Places for Forts, either to {hoot
into the Town or Sconces, which are in Prepa-
ration, and will fpeedily be finifh-d ; and we
{hall lofe no Time to make a good End of this
Service.'

Your Lord/kip's mnjl humble Servant sy

Lir.celn, March 31.
1646.

J. RUTLAND.

. MONTAGUE.

April 6: As a farther Proof that the Parliament
expecte;1 i fudden Vifit from the King, the Earl
of Noi.humbcrLr.dy this Day, preftntcd to the

Lords

of E N G L A N D. 317

'Lords a Copy of fome Orders made by the Com- An. " Car. I.
mittee of the Army for the City Militia to aft by, t . l646-
in cafe fuch an Accident fhoul:l happen. The A vril
Principal of which were thefe, viz.

4 That if the King {hould come up to any of
the Guards, the Commanding Officer there {hould, Further Order*,
with fuch Force as might be procured, conduct his ln Expectation of
Majefty to St. James's Houfe; and place a Guard J"
there to fecure his Perfcn from Danger, and pre-
vent any Refort unto him, until both Houfes were
made acquainted therewith.

1 That the faid Officer on Guard {hould appre-
hend and fecure fuch Perfons as come along with
the King, and put them into fuch Prifons and
Places as the Committee for the Militia ihould
think fit, till the Houfes give further Orders.

4 That the faid Officer ihould take Care to pre-
vent any Perfons from reforting to the King ; ami
in cafe any {hould endeavour, in a forcible Manner,
to have Accefs to him, that then he {hall appre-
hend and fecure them till further Orders.

' And, in cafe of Refiftance in any of the Cales
aforefaid, that the Officers and Soldiers {houfd, by
Force of Arms, according to the Courfe of War,
obferve thefe Directions, in purfuance of the Qr-
dinance of Parliamsnt.'

Upon this Occalion the Committee for the Mi-
litia were ordered to ftrengthen their Guards both
within and without the Lines, and employ only
fuch Men as, for their Fidelity and Abilities, they
could confide in.

. Notwithftanding the Parliament's great
Succefles lately, and that the King had now no-
thing like the Face of an Army in the Field, tht-),'
were not willing to difband any of their Forces ;
but, this Day, agreed to an Ordinance for continu-
ing the Anr.y under Sir Thomas Fairfax for four

Months longer.

Nothing material happening m the Journals^
except lomc fLuit Account of the Progreis of the

Siege

3 1 8 *The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. xz. CM. 1. Siege before Newark^ and a Demand from the
1646. §cot3 Army there for greater Supplies of Ammum-
'ril tion, £sV. we pafs on to

April 15. When the Report of a Conference be1-
tween the two Houfes was made to the Lords, by
their Speaker, to this Purpofe :

c That the Occafion of the Conference was con-
A Conference On Cernjn2; a printed Book, intituled, Some Papers of
cccafion of feme • /r ./* o i j - « L. •

papers of the tag Commifftarurt of Scotland, csr. wherein were
Scots commif- found fome Things both fcandalous and falfe ; and

55. ^ that the Houfe of Commons had made the follow*
ing Vote upon it, in which they defired their Lord-
fhips Concurrence :

Refolved, . by the t and Commons aflembled
in Parliament, * That the Book intituled, Some

* Papers of the Commij/ioners of Scotland, given in
" lately to the Houfes of Parliament, concerning the

* Proportions of Peace, printed for Robert Boftock,
c dwelling at the Sign of the King's Head, in Paul's

* Church-Yard, April u, 1646, doth contain in

* it Matters fcandalous and falfe ; and they do

* thereupon order that it be forthwith burnt by

* the Hands of the common Hangman ; and do

* declare, that the Author and Publifher thereof is

* an Incendiary between the two Kingdoms of
c 'England and Scotland.*

This Vote being read, the Speaker faid, « That
the Commons had already made fome Inquiry into
the Bufmefs, and had examined Bo/lock, the Prin-
ter, who he had the Copy of the Book from ;
who at firft denied, but afterwards confeiFed that
fie had it from the Clerk to the Scots Commif-
fioners. The Commons faid he was not afkej
any Thing concerning the Scots Commiflioners,
nor did they intend it ; but that it was a free and
voluntary Confcffion of Bojlock.

' That the Commons faid further at this Con-
ference, That there was, in the Preface to this
Book, r.n Endeavour, by Intimation, to draw the
People from the Parliament. And becaufe they
wouM not fettle the Government of the Church
in the Way fome defire, therefore they would

fettle

of E N G L A N D. 3r9

fettle none. And becaufe the Parliament would An. 1Z car. I,
not fettle the Militia of this Kigdom alfo* as fome T646
defired, it therefore appeared that the Houfes of
Parliament would have no Peace, and did intend
to alter the Government of the Kingdom.

' Laftly, the Commons were of Opinion, That
unlefs fome Declaration be fpeedily publifhed to
vindicate the Parliament from thefe Scandals, there
may much Prejudice come to their Proceedings :
Therefore the Houfe of Commons intended fpee-
dily to publifh a Declaration, That it is the Intent
of Parliament to fettle Church-Government as
near as they can to the Word of God ; and that
they do not intend to alter the Government of the
Kingdom ; but becaufe this would require fome
Time, they thought fit, for the prefent, to make
this Vote, wherein they defired their Lordfhips
Concurrence.

Then the Book was read to the Lords, and it
was ordered that this Bufmefs mould be taken into
Confideration the next Morning, and all the Lords
in Town to have Notice to attend.

But, notwithftanding this Order, the Affair was
not entered into that Day by the Lords, though a
Meflage caire up to them, from the Commons,
to defire their Lordfhips to expedite their Concur-
rence to the Vote about the Book ; becaufe nothing
being yet done in it, the Contriver and Framer
was run away, and they knew not how to proceed
againft him. However,

17. The Lords refumed the Affair, and,
a long Debate arifing, fevcral Divifions, on Quef-
tions, were made j as, Whether the Vote of the
Houfe of Commons, on the Book, mould be put
as it was brought up from them, or divided into
Parrs ; and it was carried for the former. Then
the whole Vote of the Commons being read, ano-
ther Queftion was put, Whether to agree \vith
the Houfe of Commons in this Vote? The Num-
bers being equal, nothing was concluded on this
Day. But

y On

The Preface
thereto ordered
4» be burnt.

fie Parliamentary H r s T o R r

An. ax Car. L On the next Day, this Affair being again brought
l646' on the Carpet, fome Alterations and Amendments
TJ'ril! were propofed to be made in the Vote \ and they
being read, the Queftion was put, Whether to
pafs the Vote which dame from the Houfe of Com-
mons with thefe Alterations, &V. it was carried in
the Affirmative, and this Refolution was ordered
to be fent down to them.

The Commons afterwards agreed to thefe Al-
terations of the Lords i and then the Subftance of
the Vote ran thus :

/ Be it ordained, &c. That the Epiftle, and the
Tra@ intituled The State of the §>uejlion, &e. in
the Book intituled, Some Papers, &c. do con-
tain in them Matters fcandalous and falfe ; and
they do thereupon ordain, That only the faid
Epiftle and Traft, being the Preface to the faid
Book, be forthwith burnt by the Hands of the
common Hangman. And do further declare and
ordain, That the Author is a Perfon highly dif-
affe&ed to the Parliament of England, and hath
endeavoured to raife Sedition againft it and the
Kingdom ; and that the Matter be put into a
Way of Examination to find out the Author, and
* to enjoin all Perfons whatfoever to difcover him.'

Mr. Whitlncke writes, * That it was not without
fome Ground of Sufpicion that fome of the Scots
Commiffioners themfelves encouraged, if not ap-
pointed, the Printing of this Book, which made
others more (harp againft it.'

Mr. Rujhworth takes Notice that the Scots Com*
miffioners delivered in feveral Papers relating to the
Proportions of Peace, and mentions the Cenfure
patted upon the Preface and the State of the Quef-
tion, (which was the main Part objected to by
Parliament, and the only one that fuffcred the
Sentence of Fire, pronounced at firft againft the
whole) but gives us neither of thefe j and what is
called, in his Co/legions, the Subftance of the Pa-
pers themfelves, is an Abftract of fome other Papers
prefented to Parliament feveral Days after.--'- We

therefore

^ENGLAND* 321

therefore give the whole -Pamphlet in queftion, from An. a± Car. l<
the original Edition itfelf, preferved in the Colleo
tions of Sir John Goodricke (f) 5 together with the
Parliament's Anf-wer^ taken from the Lords Jour-
nals^ and the Declaration of the Commons there-
upon publifhed by their Order [g] ; as the beft Way
of laying before the Public a juft Idea of this Dif-
pute between the two Nations.

At the fame Time alfo the Commons ordered
the Anfwer of both Houfes, to fome former Papers
from the Scots Commiflloners, to be publifhed j but
this is already given under its proper Date (h]4
And firft

Some PAPERS of the COMMISSIONERS of Scot-
land, given in lately to the Houfes of Parliament^
concerning the Proportions of Peace*

To the READER.

Judicious and good Reader,

Cf*H E drawing up of Proportions for Peace to
-* be fent unto the King, for a long Time hath taken
up the Thoughts and Pains ofthofe who fit at the Stern,
and Helm of Affairs. The Delay of fending th£
Propofitions, of late hath bujied the Phancies and
Tongues of meji Men^ who do make //, at this Time9
the ordinary Theme of their Difcourfes^ which every
one framcth right or wrong as he is carried by Inter-
eft ; but chiejly and mainly as he is led by Informa-
tion^ reasoning to and fro, he layeth the Caufe of thi
thus delaying to fend Propofitions to his Majefty*
upon thofe whom he thinks and giveth out to be the
Let.

VOL. XIV. X New

(f) It appears by the Commons Journal* That, on the a jd of March.
lb$.$, th.it Houfe refolved to accept of izoo/. of this Gentleman,
then a 1'rifbner in the Tiwur, as a Fine from his Delinquency in
bearing Arms againft the Parliament j with this Provifa, That he
fiiouid fettle 4.0 /• per Annum for ever, on the Curate of Huitjingror ;
and that the faid Fine of izoo I. be paid to 'fbtnat Stockdalt, Efq.
towards the Satisfaction of his Lofles for the Public.

(jf) Printed for EJzvard Ilu/bar.ds, Printe* to the Honourable
H<*i<e' of Commons, dwelling in Fleet-Jirtet, at th« Sign of th«
Golden Dragon, April iS, 1646.
(b] December to'. Jr» cbis V»!urne, p, 144,

3 2 1 TJ&r Parliamentary H t s f o R Y

** Car. I. Arnt', feeing tlie great Miflake of many well-mind*
ed Mm in this Point , who, taking Things at the fe~
cond Hand, without being able to dive to the bottom
and Ground of Affairs, Jhoot at Rovers, and do not
attain the Mark ; for the better Information of all
thofe who love Truth, and that faithful Men, with
Conjlancy to the Principles- vyhereunto we are all fworn
by our Solemn Covenant, and tied to by divers Trea-
ties, Agreements, and Refults, after fo many Debates,
Conferences, and mature Deliberation, be no mart
thus mifunderjlcod ; as they are by fojne, namely, by
thofe who are fo much conferred to know the Truth,
and confequently to rejefl the ftnijlrous Reports, raifed
and fpread abroad again/I Hone/ty and Integrity, with
(onjlant Faithfulnefs to the Glory of God and Good
of his People ; / having clearly underjlood, from very
good Intelligence, the Cajife in Hand, do Jtt it down
here truly andjlmply as it is re vera, without any Dif-
fuifement byjlating. the Qutjliin otherways than it is
indeed, or by colouring it with affefted flora's ; which
I here prefent unto thee, judicious Reader^ heartily
for thy Safisfaliinn ; with the Copy of three Papers
given into the Houfes of Parliament by the Ccmniif-
Jioners of Scotland, which the lajl Day fell into my
Hands. I pray thee to take in good Part this weak
Exprejjion for the Public Good, from him who ccn-
Jlantly prayeth for the Welfare of Jerufalem, end
wijheth thee to live in it happily and profptroufy.
Jtdien.

The STATE of the QUESTION concerning the
Pt'opq/itions of Peace.

CT'H E Commijfficners of Scotland have for nine
•*" Months, ever Jince the icth of June lajt, pTef-
fed the fending of the former Propofitions agreed upon
between the Kingdoms, prefented to the King at Ox-
ford, and whereof the moji material were afttrward
debated upon at Uxbridge.

The Houfes tf Parliament, upon the fixth «f Au-
guft bflt in anfwer to the Scots Commijfiontrs, de-

tlare,

^ENGLAND, 323

rtar*, . That Proportions Jhall be fent fpeedilyi lut An. « C-r. I.
that they Intend to tnake fame Alterations. ^__ * ' . _*

After nine Months, the Houfes deliver to the Scots April.
CommtJ/ionersj upon the lajl of February, fame new
Proportions. .

The Commijfioners of Scotland, Upon the i6tb of
March, deliver in their Anfwer to thefe Propon-
tions ; wherein they obfcrvey That all the OmiJ/ions9
Additions^ or Alterations made in the former Propo-
fitions, are in thofe. Things which concern the joint In-
terejl and Union of the Kingdoms,.

Upon the 26th 6f March, the Houfes appoint a
Committee to Mate with the, Scots CommiJJionen con-
cerning the Differences, . which are chiefly thefe :

i»i Concerning Religion ; the Houfes make a ge-
neral Propofition$ dcftring the King to affent to what
they have, or Jhall agree upon concerning Reformation
of Religion, and concerning Uniformity in Religiott.y
as the two Kingdoms Jhall agree.

The Commiffiotlers dejire to know the Particulars^
that, after fo long Confutation of the Divines of both
Kingdoms, they may, with Knowledge and AJJuranct;t
confent to that Proportion. It was anfweredj The
Houfes had not refolvtd. what Particulars to fend ;
and the CommiJJioners of Scotland deny to confent till
they be acquainted with the Particulars, and takt
them into Confederation* , .

2. .Concerning the Militia ; the CsmmiJ/iontrs dc-
fire the former Propofition agreed upon between tbt
Kingdoms^ and debated at Uxbridge ,to be feat, ejpe-
dally betaufe it doth nearly unite the Kingdoms,

The Houjes, in their new Proportions, will hav^
the Militia of the Kingdoms fettled fever ally y each

Kingdom by itfelf apart,
ijffiont

- fi1?"

pr 'effing Infurreftionst and oppofmg foreign Inva- *

The Commijffioners defire fuch a Conjunction at
as both may, upon Occajton, join together for

font.

Tbt Houfes will have, the Militia fettled In them*
f elves from Time to Timej without any Limitation}
and not only the Kingy but his Pojieriiy and the
Crown excluded in Time coming.

X z The

3 24 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. az Car. I. The CommiJJioners conceive it neceffary, that, for
the Security of the Kingdoms, the Militia Jhwld be
fo fettled as the King may have no Power to make
thefe Kingdoms twice miferable ; but that this being
a Cafe extraordinary, it Jhould only be for a 'Time ;
and as, upon the one Part, they think it mojl dange-
rous the Militia Jhould, after Expiration ofthatTime^
be fettled in the King alone ; fo they hold it very un-
fafe, that the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom
Jhould be altered^ and the Crown for ever excluded
from all Inter ejl and Right whatfoever ; but, after
Expiration of fitch a Time as Jhall be agreed upon, the
ordering of the Militia may be by King and Pallia-
mint, according to the many Declarations of both
Kingdoms, and particularly of the Houfes of Parlia-
ment, who affirm it to be, by the Conjlitution and
Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom, in King and
Parliament together \ and only in Cafes extraordinary,
when the King fails in his Duty, the Parliament alone
to provide for the Security of the Kingdom (i).

3. Concerning Ireland ; the Houfes alledge, That
the TranfaRions between the Kingdoms, made at
Edinburgh, Nov. 28, 1643, are no Treaty.

The Commijfioners make it appear that it is a Trea-
ty ; for that the Englifh Commijfioners bad Power ti
treat, agree, and conclude; Articles are drawn up
and agreed unto, which the Houfes ratify and con-
firm in their Votes of the qth of March and i 1 tk
of April, 1 643 ; in the fame Votes calling it a
Treaty : And Scotland performs their Part of the
Treaty ; makes their Army flay, and advances to them
a hundred thoufand Pounds Sterling, at the Dejire of
England, who then, becaufe of their low Condition,
were not able to fend them any Relief-, and now the
Houfes make quejlion to perform their Part of the
Treaty to Scotland.

Laftly, The Difference is concerning four Propo-
fitions, formerly agreed upon between the Kingdoms,
and emitted by the Houfes in their new Propofitions.
They are :

\.Tht

(i) Hu&and's Collection, 4** Edit, p. 207, S ; ;»S, 9, 30.

^ENGLAND. 325

1. The Propofition that Peace and War Jhall not An. zz Car. r,

be made without Confent of both Kingdoms. l6*6'

2. For educating of the King's Children by Confent
of both Kingdoms.

3. For dijbanding the Armies by Confent of both
Kingdoms.

4. For an AcJ of Oblivion by Confent of both.
T"he Commijffioners defire, that either the Propofl-

tions concerning Religion, the Militia, and Ireland,
be fent alone as was done at Uxbridge ; or, if more
be fent, that thefe Proportions, which concern the
joint Inter -eft of both Kingdoms, may alfo be fent
when others of lefs Moment are fent.

When the Committee of both Houfes and the Com-
mijjioners had debated upon all thefe Differences^ the
Commijfioners expefted that both Jhould have joined
their Endeavours to find out Expedients for removing
thefe Differences, and fo come to a fpeedy Agreement :
But the Committee of both Houfes declared they had
no Power to confent to the Alteration of the leajl Cir-
cumftance, though they were convinced in Reafon ;
whereupon the Commijjioners gave in a Paper, defiring
the Houfes to enlarge the Power of the Committee.

Some PAPERS of the COMMISSIONERS of
Scotland, fcfr.

March 16, 1646.;

*\ U R earneft Defires to have Religion fettled Thc revertj Pt>

* \J in this Kingdom according to the Cove- perj, which were

* nant, and to have both Kingdoms delivered from annexed thereto.
' their prefent Troubles and Preflures, and eftabliih-

' ed in a firm and happy Peace^ that we ourfelves

* and our Army might return to our own native

* Country with Comfort and Contentment, moved
' us thefe nine Months pad often and earneftly to

* prefs, That the Proportions formerly agreed up-

* on by the two Kingdoms might be fent to his

* Majefty; and the Anfwer of the Honourable
' Houfes feven Months fince, flic wing their Refo-
' lutioa to fend Proportions to his Majcftv for fuch

X 3 ''a Peace,

326 Ibe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. »4 Car. I. a Peace^ hath moved us extremely to long fbf

thern .

j^fif^" "* Upon the 28th of February we received fome
of the Proppfttions,, wty ich your Lordfhips defire
to be fent ; and in Anfwer to our Paper of the
fecond of this Infant A^arch^ exprefling our De-
fire to know whether thefe were all the Propofi-
tions defired to be fent, or if we were to expec~t
any other, it was returned upon the 4th of March^
That thefe were all, except fuch as concern De-
linquents and the City, which were fpeedily to
"be delivered unto us.

* In the Proportions which we have received we
cannot but obferve, that the moft material Ad-
ditions, Omiffions, and Alterations, as they arc
exprefTed in the Paper^ wherein the Difference
confifts betwixt thefe and the Propofetions for-
merly agreed upon, do trench upon the joint In-
tereft of both Kingdoms, and tend to the loofing
of the Bonds and weakening of the Sinews of
our happy Union ; which were not only notable
Pledges and Evidences of reciprocal Kindnefs for
the Time, to the Difcourageraent of the com-
mon Enemy, but were alfo powerful Means for
coriferving and perpetuating our common Peace
and brotherly Amity for all Generations to come,
to the defpajriqg of all our Enemies ever to prevail,
by their Plots or Attempts, againft thefe fo near-
ly and firmly united Kingdoms. This could not
but be a Matter of Refentment and unfpeakable
Grief unto us and to the Kingdom of Scotland^ had
we not Grounds of Aflurance of the Intention
of both Houfes to the contrary, both from the in-
violable League and Covenant; wherein we have
all fwbrri^ To endeavour that thefe Kingdoms may
remain conjoined in a firm Peace and Union to all
Pofteriiy\ and from their Letter of the I3th of
November, 1645, to the Parliament of Scotland,
exprefling their ' Defire of a nearer Union and
Conjunction between the Kingdoms : We come
therefore to the particuliir Confideration of the
Propt/ttions.

9f ENGLAND.

« We frrft of all defire, That the Preface, Title, An.

* and Ccnclufton of the Propofoions may be the

* fame as formerly, or to that Senle (k}. A' :;~

« In the firft Article we defire thefe Words,
' the Parliament of that Kingdom, to be added af-

* ter thefe Words, Convention of EJlates in Scot-

* land, and we do agree to the y?, 2^, 3^, ai.d
' Aftb Proportions.

* To the 5^7; and 6tb Propofitionst we defire to

* fee what the Houfes have already agreed upon

* concerning Religion, and then we (hall give in
4 our Anfwer about thefe Prepofitions.

* To the jtb, 8th, gtk, loth, nth, and I2th9

* Propofttions we do agree ; the Claufe fet dcwn in

* the nth Article of the former Propofoions, and

* omitted in thefe, concerning the ratifying the

* A&s of the Convention of Eftates and Parliament:
' of Scotland, being added to the iith Propofttion,

« The Treaty at Edinburgh the 28th of Novem-
' her, 1643, which was comprehended in the for-
c mer Proportion agreed upon between the King-

* doms, is excluded by thefe Words in this new
' i$th Propafition, and tvhereunto they are obliged
c by the aforefaid Treaties ; for the Kingdoms were

* not obfiged by any of the former Treaties to make
' a fubfequent Treaty, and therefore we defire the

* faid Treaty of the 28th of November, 1643, *or
' gether with the Ordinances of the gth of March,
' and the iith ©f April, ratifying the fame, maj-

* be exprefled in the Propofttion, for which we oi-
' fer the Reafons following :

* The Commiflioners of the Parliament of Eng-
' land received particular In/hu£?ions, from the

* two Houfes, to treat with the Kingdom of Scat-
4 land concerning the Maintenance of the Scot*

* Army in Ireland, and ordering thereof in fuch
6 Manner as might beft conduce to the Profccutioa

X 4 ' aF

'*) For the better Illuftration of thefe Ol'te&sri of the Setts Ccm -
miflioners, we defigned to have fubjoined fuch P»iiasci of the P>»-
fo/tthni as they excepted againft ; But this is not in our Powrr, vhef
not being entered in Form in iht jnrna/f nil foil* !';•;•- i-4 in 'J*{/

328 The Parliamentary HISTORY

Car. I. c of that War, according to the Ends exprefled in
the Covenant. And by their Injlru&iom com-
municated to the Convention of Eftates of Scot-
land, according to the Direction of the Houfes,

* they are exprefsly authorized to fettle upon fome
' Courfe with the Kingdom of Scotland to manage
' the War by the joint Advice of the Committees
' of both Kingdoms, and to prevent the Evils and
c Mifchiefs that elfe might fall out for want of the
' fame.

* According to thefe Injlruftions, (even Articles
' are mutually agreed upon at Edinburgh, the 28th

* of November, 1643, by a Committee of both

* Kingdoms, after advifing with the Agents and

* Officers fent from the Scots Army, and ferious
' Debates and mature Deliberation upon the whole

* Matter between the Committees of both King-
' doms, as is acknowledged in the Preface of tht
' Treaty.

« In the fourth Article of that Treaty two Things

* are agreed on : 1. That he who doth or (hall
4 command in Chief over the Scots Army, by joint

* Confent of both Kingdoms, {hall alfo command
' the reft of the Britijh Forces in Ireland. 2. For

* the managing of that War, and profecuting the
' Ends exprefied in the Covenant, that the fame
' be done by joint Advice with the Committees of

* both Kingdoms.

' Thefe Articles being agreed upon, were tranf*
e mitted to the Houfes of Parliament, and fix of
' them ratified and approved in the Fates of both
' Houfes of the Qth of March and 1 1 th of April.

' In the Votes of the 9th of March, the fourth

* Article concerning the Command in Chief, and
' the managing °f the War with the joint Advice
' of both Kingdoms, is, verbatim, ratified by the
' Houlcs, and was prefented at Uxbridge, to be

* confirmed by the King.

' The Cornmiffioners of Scotland having receiv-

* ed In/lrufiions from the Eftates of Parliament

* for the perfecling of this Treaty, and the two

* Houfe?

of E N G L A N D. 329

* Houfes having referred the fame to the Confidera- An« 2* Car. I.
' tion of the Committee of both Kingdoms, after

* a free Debate and full Deliberation, the third
' and' fourth Articles of the Treaty at Edinburgh
1 were agreed upon and perfected by them, and
*" reported to both Houfes, who ratified and ap-

* proved the fame in their Votes of the nth of
« April.

4 Concerning the Command in Chief, thefe

* Words were agreed upon: " That the Earl of
*' Leven, Lord-General of the Scots Forces in Ire-
" land) being now, by the Votes of both Houfes,
*c agreed to be Commander in Chief over all the
** Forces, as well Britijh as Scots, according to the
" fourth Article of the Refult of the Committee of
" both Kingdoms, parted both Houfes, bedefired,
" with all convenient Speed, by the Advice of the
" faid Committees, to nominate and appoint a
" Commander in Chief, under his Excellency, over
** the faid Forces, to refide with them upon the
«4 Place."

' Concerning the managing of the War, it is
' agreed upon in thefe Words : " That the Com-
" mittees be nominated and appointed by the joint
" Advice of both Kingdoms, of fuch Numbers and
" Qualities as fhall be by them agreed on, to be
" fent with all convenient Speed to refide with the
44 faid Force?, and be enabled with full and ample
44 Inftruclions, by the joint Advice of both King-
" doms, for the regulating of the faid Forces, and
*4 the better carrying on of that War :" And both

* thefe Articles were delivered in at the Treaty at
4 Uxbridge, and defired to be confirmed.

* That, according to thefe Articles, Committees
4 are now in Ireland from both Kingdoms, for

* managing of the War.

' That thefe Articles of the 28th of • November ^
« 1 643, are likewife ratified in the Parliament of
' Scotland^ and regiftered as a Treaty.

' That the Houfes of Parliament, in their Votes

* of the gth of March, do, in Approbation of the

* fixth Article, acknowledge it to be a Treaty.

2 ' That

tte Parliamentary HISTORV

« That the Votes of the 9th of March, by DU
re&ion of the Houfes, were delivered unto us as
their Confent to the Articles of the faid Treaty of
the 28th of November ; and the Houfes, in their
Letter of the 25th of May, did acquaint the Par-
liament of Scotland, that they had ratified and
confirmed the feveral Treaties made and agreed
between their Commiflioners and th<i Convention
of Eftates in Scotland: And that it was their De-
fire the fame might be done by the Parliament of
Scotland^ which they did accordingly.
' That thefe Articles were agreed upon between
the Kingdoms, when the Parliament's Army in
Munjler revolted from them, and when the Setts
Army in Ulflcr had fent Agents to the Conven-
tion of Eftates of Scotland to declare, That, by
reafon of their extreme Wants and Sufferings,
occafioned by the Want of their Pay and necef-
fary Maintenance, due by the Parliament of Engr
land, they were refolved to leave that Kingdom ;
whereby it would have been wholly loft to the Par-
liament of England, if the Kingdom of Scotland
had not interpofed, and, by taxing great Sums
of Money upon the Kingdom of Scotland, and
levying Provifions, had raifed confiderable Sup-
plies, and fent them over for the prefent Subfift-
ence of the Scots Army, until the Parliament of
England fhould be able to fend them further Sup-
plies ; which both Houfes do acknowledge in
their faid Letter of the 25th of May to the Par-
liament of Scotland, and do return their hearty
Thanks to the Kingdom of Scotland, for their
Care of that Army, and the great Charge they
have been at for their Relief with Provifions and
Money for their neceflary Subfiftence.
* Thofe Articles being treated upon by Com*-
mittees of both Kingdoms, both in Scotland and
England, being ratified by the Parliaments of
botn Kingdoms, and by both acknowledged -to
be a Treaty, prefented with the Propofetions of
Peace, and debated at Uxbridge, and having as
much, if not more, of the Formalities of a Treaty

* than

*f ENGLAND.

than the firft Treaty concerning the fending of An
the Scots Army into Ireland ^ we defire that this
Treaty may be inferred with the other Treaties in
this Propojition^ it being moft reaibnable that
the Treaty made, and Conditions agreed on, for
the Continuance of that ftarved Army in Ireland^
fhould be of as great .Force, and as well obferved,
as the Treaty maJe for the fending them over into
Ireland.

' As to the former Part of the i\tb Propofttion^
£ we dejire it may ftand as formerly, for the Rea-
f fons ahoyfe exprefTed : And as to the latter Part
.* now added, we defire that all the Articles con-
•' ccrning the fettling of Religion in this Kingdom,
* may be extended to Ireland, according to the
-' Covenant.

4 The if//; Proppfition^ concerning Delinquents,
.' we have not received.

* To the i6tb and i~tb Proportions we do agree.

4 In the i$th Proposition we find fo material Dif-
ferences from that which was formerly agreed
upon concerning the Militia, as may be Matter
of Jong Debate what may be moft conducible to
the Security of both Kingdoms, and fo retard
the fending of the Proportions^ and lofe the pre-
fent Opportunity of obtaining his Majefty's Con-
fent before he be engaged in fome other Defign,
which may be a Ruin to himfelf, and a Matter of
new Trouble to thefe Kingdoms.

* We defire it may be confidered, that the for-
mer Proportions, according to the Intereft of both
Kingdoms, did fettle a Power in Commiflioner*
of both Kingdoms for refilling all foreign In-
vafions, and for fupprefling of all Forces raifed
within either of the laid Kingdoms, to the Dif-
turbance of their Peace ; by which there was no
Place left either to arbitrary Power, or to any
Miftake or Jealoufy that could be raifed or fo-
mented between the Kingdoms ; or to any Pro-
ject of Incendiaries, to divide the King from any
of his Kingdoms, or one Kingdom from another.
And we fee no Reafon why that which, at the

4 framing

332 The Parliamentary HISTORY

)Hn. 22 Car. I. < framing of thefe Proportions , was efteemed as a
l6*6' , * great Service and a firm Foundation of Unity and

* mutual Confidence betwixt the Kingdoms, fhould

* now be altered, the Reafons for preventing there-

* of being as ftrong as ever : And this new Propo~
' fition contains nothing that may prevent thofe fo
' great and obvious Inconveniences ; but feems ra-
' ther to argue a Diffidence and Jealoufy, to the
4 weakening of that mutual Confidence which was
' laid by the former Proportions.

* Further, this new Proportion doth not provide
' how the Militia fhall be ordered and difpofed in

* the Intervals of Parliament, although, in another

* Cafe, by the 21^? Proportion, concerning the
' Nomination of the Deputy or Chief Governor of

* Ireland* the Chancellor or Lord-Keeper, Lord-

* Treafurer, and other Officers and Minifters of

* England and Ireland^ it is provided that, in the

* Intervals of Parliament, they {hall be nominated

* by a Committee of Parliament. And if it be

* intended that, in like Manner, the Militia be or-

* dered, in the Intervals of Parliament, by a Com-

* mittee of Parliament, there is no Objection can

* be made againft the former Propofetion^ for fet-
' tling the Militia in Commiflioners, which will

* not be as full againft fettling thereof in a Com-

* mittee j for, by the former Propofitions^ the Com*

* miffioners were alterable from Time to Time by
' the Houfes, and to receive and obferve their Di-
' reclions and Inftru6tions.

4 We conceive alfo, as the Honourable Houfes,

* upon Confideration of the manifold Troubles and

* Diftraftions of thefe Times, have wifely and

* neceflarily refolved, for the Safety and Security
' of thefe Kingdoms, fo to fettle the Militia, as
' the King, although he were willing, be not able,

* by involving them again into a bloody War, to

* make them twice miferable ; wherein we are
f ready moft heartily to concur : So do we think

* it is not their Intention to diveft the King's Po-
' fterity and Crown, for all Time coming, of all
« Power, Right, and Intereft in the Matter of

' Militia^

cf ENGLAND. 333

* Militia, fo as although they be never fo willing A"* " c«« I«
4 to follow the Advice of their Parliaments, yet

* they fliall for ever be incapable, and in no Time April.
4 coming be admitted, to join with their Parlia-

* ments, for refilling their Enemies and protecting

* their Subjects ; the Apprehenfion whereof may

* prolong the King's Anfiuer^ and hinder his Con-
4 lent, and, as may eafily be collected from the

* Debates at Uxbridge^ may be interpreted to be a

* Fundamental Alteration of the Government, con-
4 trary to the Refolutions and Declarations of both
'- Kingdoms, and not fo agreeable to the Covenant;
4 may be made Ufe of by our Adverfaries for fuch
4 an Occafion of quarrelling as they never had be-
4 fore ; may be made a Mean to bring the com-
4 mon Caufe and our Carriage into Contempt, and
4 ufed by our Enemies as a Motive for provoking
4 foreign Princes and States to engage in a War
' againft us : Both Parts were provided for in the
4 former Proportion j upon the one Part, the Ex-

* ercife and Execution of the Militia was not ta

* be in the Power of the King; yet, upon the
' other Part, were the Commiflioners, in whofe

* Hands it was to be trufted, to have their Com-
4 miflion from the King and Parliament ; and it
c was condefcended upon at Uxbridge^ that the
4 Time fhould be limited to feven Years, and,
" after Expiration of that Term, to be fettled and

* exercifed in fuch Manner as his Majefty and the
4 Parliaments of both Kingdoms reflectively fhould
' think fit ; but, by this new Proportion the whole

* Power is to be fettled in the two Houfes of Par-

* liament, and the Crown altogether excluded from,

* all Intereft in the Militia for ever j which there-
4 fore requireth a new Confideration.

' There is another Thing which we profefs doth

* very much affedt us, That whereas, in the large
4 Treaty of Peace, a Commiffion for the Preferva-.,
4 tion of the Peace then fettled between the King-.
4 doms, was judged moft neceflary, and was mu-
4 tually agreed upon ; and accordingly, in purfu-j
4 ance thereof, Coinmiilioncrs were appointed by

« the

3 34 ^e -Parliamentary H r s' T dx. Y

An. 12. Car. I. * the Parliament of Scotland, to whom the Houlei

, !.646- * of Parliament, upon feveral Occafions, made"

*" -Avrjj * their AddrefTes to good Purpofe. And whereas,
' in the former Proflfitions, feveral Articles wer£

* fet down, with mutual Confent, for • conserving*

* the Peace firmly and inviolably for all Time try
' come j yet, in this new Propofoion^ although the

* Danger be no lefs, and the Neceffity no Ids ur-
4 gent, there is not fo much as Mention made of

* any Mean to be ufed, or Courfe taken, for confer-
4 ving the Peace between the Kingdoms, and be-

* twixt the King and either of them ; but all paf-

* fed in Silence : All which neceflary Confidera-

* tions we offer to the Wifdom of the Honourable

* Houfes, that they may continue in their Refolu-

* tion to fend the former Prcpofttions as they were

* propofed at Uxbridgt^ which will be free of De-

* bate, are more likely to be obtained of the King's

* Majefty, and will ferve more for the Peace and

* good Correfpondence of the Kingdoms, efpecial-

* ly that the Confervation of Peace, for the future,'

* may be provided for.

* To the igtb and 2Oth Proportions we do agree.

' To the 2i/f Propofitton we do agree with this-

* Addition, '* The like for the Kingdom of Scot-
44 land concerning the Nomination of the Lords of
*' the Privy-Council, Lords of Seflion and Exche-
*' quer, Officers of State and Juftice-General, in*
•* fuch Manner as the Eftates in Parliament mail

* think fit.*'

* The Proportion concerning the Education,

* Marriage, and choofing of the Tutors and Go-

* vernors of the King's Children, by Confent of

* both Kingdoms, is omitted in theie new Pro-

* The Propofttion concerning the makirtg of

* Peace or War, with foreign Princes and States,-

* with Advice and Confent of both Kingdoms, if

* alfo omitted in thefe Proportions.

' The Propofition concerning the Difbandihg
' the Armies, by Confent of both Kingdoms, i»

* likewife omitted.

ef E N G L A N D. 335

* The Proposition for parting an A<St of Oblivion AH. a a Car. I.
' in the Parliament of both Kingdoms, is omitted. l646<

* We defire that the Propo/ition concerning the *~ * ..

* City of London, us alfo the Propositions concern-

* ing Delinquents, may be fpeedily delivered unto

* us that they may be difpatched with the reft.

* Upon the whole Matter, if the Houfes of Par-

* liament {hall think fit, for the prefent, to fend

* only the three Propositions, concerning Religion^

* the Militia^ and Ireland^ as they were propofed

* at Uxbridge, we do agree : But if they think fit
' that more Proportions be fent at this Time, we
' do defire that all the Proportions which concern
4 the joint Intereft of both Kingdoms, and arc
' omitted in the new Proportions, may be fent like-

* wife j although we are of the Judgment that

* every Particular and Circumftance of the Pro-
*• pojitions is not of fo great Importance to thefe
4 Kingdoms, as that Peace and War fhould depend

* thereupon.

* Having thus freely, in fuch brotherly Manner

* as the Matter of Peace doth require, exprcfTed

* our Senfe of the Proportions delivered unto us ;

* if there be any Miftake on our Part, or if there be

* any Point wherein the Honourable Houfes are not

* fatisfied, we are moft willing and ready to give

* and receive all brotherly Satisfaction, by Confe-

* rence or otherwife, in fuch Manner as (hall be

* judged moft behoveful and expeditious, and to

* give Teftimony of our true and earneft Defires

* and Readinefs to concur with the Honourable

* Houfes, in all fuch Things as, upon a friendly

* Debate, {hall be found conducible for procuring>
' fettling, and propagating fuch a Peact^ as we

* all defire for our Common Happinefs.'

March 26, 1 646.

* ¥ T is not yet unknown to the Honourable

* 1 Houfes of Parliament, how long a Time w*

* have waited here in Patience and Silence for the

* fettling of ChurchrGovcrnment according to t e

336 *The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. az dr. I. < Covenant , and we ourfelves know (for which we

t l646' « have many Witnefles at home in the Church of

April. * Scot/and) how zealous we have been of the Ho-

« nour of the Parliament in this Matter j what

' hath been our Care and Induftry to perfuade and

' afTure, that although Hope deferred might make

* the Hearts of many to faint, yet when the Defire
' fhould come, it would be a Tree of Life : And

* that we were not to judge of the Model of Church
' Government in the Church of England, and of

* Uniformity with the Church of Scotland, by fome

* previous and particular Ordinances of Parliament,

* which were but Parts of the Building; but were

* to expect the laft Ordinance, which would fup-

* ply the Defects of the former, and, by rearing up
' the whole Houfe in Proportion and Beauty,

* would, in the End, give, to every judicious Eye
' and zealous Heart, a full Satisfaction. We do
' alfo, with Thankfulnefs, acknowledge and re-

* member the Zeal of the Honourable Houfes, in
c removing the Book of Common-Prayer, in abo-

* liming Epifcopal Government, and in other Parts
' of Reformation, and that, in the Time of their
« greateft Troubles and Dangers, which maketh
« their Work the more acceptable to God and all
« good Men ; yet are we at this Time neceffitated

* by our Covenant, our common Intereft, and pub-

* lie Truft, to make Remonftrance of two Things
« moft material and of greateft Confequence ;

* One is, that through the long Delay of the fet-
' ding of true Government of the Church, Hereiics

* and Se&s are fo multiplied, and Schifm hath fo
' much prevailed, that rf there be not in Time a

* powerful Remedy provided, this Church, after fo

* many Miferies of a Woody and long lafting Warr
' will be in worfe Cafe than the former was, from
' which it was taken for a great Happinefs to be
« delivered ; and the Church of Scotland,' after

* their many Sufferings in this Kingdom and at

* home, in greater Danger than it was i a from the

* Prelates here, whofe Ufurpation was the Begfn-
4 ning of all our Calamities and Vexation.

«The

of ENGLAND.

* The Honourable Houfes may be pleafed to An

' call to mind, that, in the Large Treaty, of the

4 Date, March iq, 1641, the Commiffioners of

' Scotland, from the Senfe of the Troubles of that

4 Church, arifing from the Prelates of the Church

4 of England, did, by many Arguments, prefs Unity

* in Religion, and Uniformity of Church-Govern-
4 ment in the three Kingdoms^ unto which, from

* the King and Parliament jointly, a comfortable

* and hopeful Anfvjer was returned for obtaining

* their Defire. Thereafter, in the Year 1642, the
4 General Aflembly of the Church of Scotland^
4 feconded and aflifted by the Lords of Secret
^4 Council, did, upon the fame Grounds, renew
£rthe fame Defire ; and received from the Parlia-
.£- ment of England, not only a Profeflion of their

4 great Contentment in the Motion p1 ropofed, with
4 many Thanks, but alfo a large Approbation of
4 the Motives upon which it was urged ; which
4 were, The more ftiitt Union of both Kingdoms ;
' more fafe, eafy, and comfortable Government of his
1 Majejiy, and, bo.th to himfelf and People, more
4 free Communion in all holy Exercifes and Duties of
" War/hip ; more conjlant Security of Religion again/I
4 the bloody Practices of Papi/Js and deceitful Errors
' of other Sectaries ; more projitable Ufe of the Mi-

* niftry, in drawing them from unpleafant and un-
' profitable Controverjies, to the prejjing of Afortijj-
1 cation, and to Treatifes of true Piety and practical
' Divinity ; the making of Way to the Relief and
' Deliverance of the poor afflitted Churches abroad^
4 &c. Ail which are expreiTed in their Declara-
' tion and Refolution, in Anfwer to the Declaration

* of the General Aflembly, together with a fad
' Complaint, That the miferable Eftate of this

* Church and Kingdom was not able to endure
4 any longer Delay j and a D>efire, That fome
4 godly and learned Divines might be fcnt from the
4 Church of Scotland, whereby the fo-much-defir-
4 ed Unity and Uniformity might be obtained.
4 In the End, the mutual and joint Defires of both

* Kingdoms were concluded, and crowned with a
VOL. XiV. Y Siltmn

7fo Parliamentary HISTORY

Car. I. c Solemn League and Covenant, now tranflated info

< other Tongues, and known throughout all Chrif-
' tendorri ; which was taken, as for other good
' Ends, fo for endeavouring the neareft Conjunc-
' tion and Uniformity in Religion and Church-
' Government, and the Extirpation of Hsrefyand
« Schifm.

' All which confldered, we may be bold to fayr
' without Preface or Apology, (which about the
' like Purpofe the Houfes of Parliament, in that their
« Declaration, judged unneceflfary) That it would
6 be the Sin and Shame of the Church of England,
' and the Sorrow of all the Reformed Churches,

* particularly of the Church of Scotland, if, after fa
' many Preparations, and fo Solemn League and
' Covenant is entered into, for endeavouring the
' neareft Conjunction and Uniformity in Religion

* and Church-Government, and the Extirpation

* of Herefy and Schifm ; not only all Sorts of
' Blafphemies, Herefies, and Seels which are now
*•' multiplied, and Liberty of Confcience which is
' pleaded for, ftiould have Place j but Unity and

* Uniformity in Religion, which is fomuch preached

* and written againft, ftiould be flighted, and the 6V
' venanl itfelf wrefted and perverted to fpeak that
' which it never intended, and which did not en-
*• ter into any Man's Mind in the Beginning, fuch
« a Violence as the Holy Scripture itfelf hath fuf-

* fered from perverfe and heretical Spirits ; and

* this Church, after ib long a Time, further from

* Uniformity amongft themfelves and with other

* Reformed Churches, than they were at firrr

* when it was judged fo neceflary. Againft thefe

* fo dangerous and deftruc~Hve Evils, we earneftly

* defire the Honourable Houfes to provide effectual

* Remedy ; 'and we pray God fo to blefs their
' Endeavours, that the Ruin of Religion in both

* Kingdoms, with the horrid Confequences there-

< of, which is the Work of Satan and his Inftru-
' ments, contrary to the Work of God and his

* Servants, may, while there is yet Hope,- be wife-
' }y and fpeedily prevented.

The-

of E N G L A ft D.

* The other material Point which we defireAn. 22 Car. I,

* to offer, is concerning the late Ordinance of Par-
' liament, March 14, 1645, w'th lne Directions,

* Augvft 19, 1645 } which, in Difcharge of their
c Duty to God, in Purfuanceof the Covenant^ and
c in Thankfulnefs to God for his Mercies, they
' have, after long Confultation, refolved upon :

* And wherein there be divers Evidences of the
' Piety and Wifdom of the Honourable Houfes ;
' for which not only the Church of England^ but
4 the Church of Scotland^ and all the Reformed

* Churches, have Caufe to blefs the Lord ; yet it

* being acknowledged, that there may be Need of
Supplements and Additions, and haply alfo of
Alterations in fome Things : And it being fup-
pofed that the Advice of the Afiembly of Divines,
wherein we have been affiftant, is had thereunto;
and we being intruded by the Church of Scotland,
in Matters that concern them fo nearly upon
their common Intereft,- we have taken the Free-

* dom to prefent our Thoughts concerning fome
' Particulars contained in the Ordinance.

' Firjl, Concerning the Subordination of the
' Aflemblies of the Church to the Parliament 5
' we make no Queftion but the Parliament is fu-

* perior to all the Aflemblies of the Church in

* Place, Dignity, Honour, and earthly Power ;
' that Civil Powers are the Vicegerents of God

* on Earth ; and that Minifters are only Servants

* and Ambafladors ; and that the Magiftrate is
4 Cujios utriufque Tabules, and may, by his Au-
thority, compel the Minifters and Affemblies of
the Church to perform the Duties which Chrift
requires of them j like as the Minifters are bound
to render aReafon and Account of their Proceed-
ings to the Civil Powers with all Humility and
Reverence. We do only defire, That without
Diminution of, or Derogation unto, the right
and juft Power of the Parliament or Civil Ma-
giftrate, the LXpreffion of Subordination maybe
altered ; becauic it may fuppofe (contrary to
the Meaning of the Parliament) that the Rela-

Y 3 **ioq

340 The Parliamentary HISTORY

. a2 car. I. « tion of one Church-AfTembly to another, and of
1646^_ ' the Aflemblies to the Parliament, and of Ap-
' peals of one to another, are of the fame Kind and
' in the fame Line, as if the Civil Power were not
' only about Matters of the Church and Religion,

* but were formally Ecclefiaftical, and to be exer-

* cifed Ecclefiaftically j becaufe fome may inter-

* pret it to be fuch an Headfhip and Supremacy

* in the Church, as fome Times was in the Pope,

* and hath been retained in Subftance in this

* Kingdom, as the Fountain of the High Com-
' miflion, and Foundation of other Corruptions,
' contrary to the Judgment of all fuch as have

* fought after further Reformation ; and becaufe it

* is againft the Doctrine and Profeflion of the Re-

* formed Churches, which, next unto the Word

* of God, which is the Rule, are propofed in the

* Covenant as the Example of Reformation.

* Secondly^ .We defire the Provincial Commif-

* fioners for judging of Scandals may be taken into
4 further Confideration, there being no Warrant

* nor Pretence for fuch a Mixture in Church-Go-

* vernment from Jefus Chrift, who hath appointed

* his own Spiritual Officers, to whom he hath

* committed the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven ;

* and to whom the Reformed Churches conceive

* the judging of Offences, and the Qualification of

* Communicants, doth as properly and incom-

* m unicably, belong, as the publick Preaching of the

* Word and Adminiftration of the Sacraments.

* Nor can it be fuppofed, that fome few Civil Men,

* having no Calling from God, can be more able

* to judge of Matters of this Nature, than the

* Aflemblies of the Chuich, feparated for the Work
' of the Gofpel, of which this is no fmall Part.

* The fame Churches, and particularly the Church
' of Scotland^ which all this Time have been in

* Expectation of great Purity and Perfection of

* Reformation in the Church of England, may
' have their own Jealoufies and Fears, that, in the

* Nature of the Thing, this may be the laying of
' a new Foundation of an High Commiffion or

« Epifco-

of ENGLAND. 34r

c Epifcopacy, upon which the Superftru£hire after- An, 21 Car. I.
' ward, although contrary to the prefent public In- t l64-6' f
' tendons, may be eafy ; and for a new Partition- A*nli
' Wall to divide betwixt them and the Church of
' England^ and to make a prefent Schifm and Sepa-
' ration for renting the Boweis of this Church.

' Thirdly, Concerning the Meeting of the Na-
c tional Aflembly; we acknowledge that the Su-

* preme Magiftrate, who is Guardian of both Ta*

* bles, and a Nurfe-Father of the Church, may
' call a National AfTembly when, in his Wifdom,

* he {hall judge it neceflary ; and the Church is,
c with all Refpedl: and Humility, to obey his Call
' for the Good of Religion, or the Peace of the

* Kingdoms, when by Religion difturbed ; but it
' is withall to be acknowledged, that this Power

* of the Magiftrate is accumulative or pofitive, but

* is not a privative or deftrudtive Power : We there-
' fore move, That the Liberty which the Church
£ hath from Chrift be not reftrained in Cafes of
c fuch extraordinary Neceffity, as Religion in all
e Places hath been, and may be, fubje£t unto, the
4 Safety of the Church being here the fupreme
' Law ; and the Honourable Houfes of Parliament,
' having their Liberties enlarged, will be willing to
c enlarge the Liberties, of Chrift and his Servants.

' And we defire, that as they have, in their Wif-
c dom, appointed certain Times for the Meeting

* of the inferior Aflemblies of the Church, they
' may alfo be pleafed to appoint fixed Times for
' the Meeting of the National Aflembly ; other-
' wife what {hall become of the Male-Adminiftra-

* tion of Provincial Synods, and of Appeals from
' them to the National Aflembly ? May not Pro-
' vincial Synods, within a {hortTime, run into con-
' trary Opinions and Practices, and prefuaic upon

' a Provincial Independency to hold them without j
' controul ? The Chriftian Churches, in all Ages,
' have ufsd this as an ordinary and neceflary Mean
for the uniform fettling and preferving of Religion
iety ; for csnfuring and purging out of He-
Y 3 ' relies

342 *the Parliamentary HISTORY

An. aa Car. I. < rcfies and Errors ; and removing of Scandals,

1646 « Schifm, Tyranny, Prophanenefs, and fuch Evils

"~^V j ~ « as, by divine Providence and Prediction, muft

' be, and would bring certain Deftrueiion and De-

' folation upon Churches, if, by this powerful Re-

« medy, they were not cured or prevented.

* There be divers other Particulars in the Di-
' redtions and Ordinances of Parliament; as the
' giving of the Sacrament to fome Perfons againft
' the Confciehce of the Miniftry and Elderfhip,

* 6oncerning public Repentance, and fuch like ;
' which, by Conference or otherwife., as (hall feern
' good to the Wifdom of the Honourable Houfes,
' we would willingly and humbly offer to be exa-
6 mined, and, with fmall Alteration, may give
f great Satisfaction; being confident, that our

* Liberty, in what we have exprellTed, will be taken

* in good Part, fith it is done by us in Purfuance

* of the Ends of the Covenant ; wherein, as the
' Parliament and Church of England are bound to
'• endeavour the Prefervation of the Government
' and Difcipline of the Church of Scotland, fo are

* we bound to endeavour the Reformation of the

* Difcipline and Government in the Church of
c England and Ireland, according to the Word of
' God, and the Example of the beft Reformed

* Churches ; and fith we have not for the prefent,
' and we hope {hall never have for the future,
' whatfoever our Adverfity or Profperity may be,
f any other Intentions or Defires, than we had and
' propofed in the Beginning, when we fo folemiir-
e ly entered into Covenant.''

April 6, 1646.
« *TP* H E Honourable Houfes having, after nine

* \. Months Deliberation, framed, and, upon

* the laft of February, delivered unto us, fome of

* the Propofitions of Peace, upon the 1 6th of March
— 'we returned our Anfvoer ; in the Clofe whereof

« we exprefled our earneft Defires and Readinefe

* to give and receive all brotherly Satisfadtion con-

% ' cerninff

^ENGLAND. 343

cernmg any Differences, and to concur with theAn« ** Car<
Houfes in all fuch Things as, upon a friendly ^^
Debate, ftiould be found conducible for procur- April,
ing and fettling a happy Peace. Upon Confidera-
tion whereof, the Houfes appointed a Committee
to meet with us upon the 2yth of March-, but when
we expe&ed that, upon Debate, their Lordfliips
fliould have concurred with us in finding out Ex-
pedients for removing of all Differences, and re-
porting of the Refult to both Houfes, that we
might come to a fpeedy Agreement, they declar-
ed unto us, That they had only Power to argue
with us, and were fo ftrictly bound up by the
Votes of the Houfes punctually to adhere to every
Propofition^ that they had no Power to confider
of the Alteration of the leaft Circumftance,
though only as preparatory and in order to the
further Confideration of the Houfes. When we
have ferioufly thought upon this Way of Proceed-
ing, (the Propojitlons being the Demands of both
Kingdoms, to be fent in the Name of both, as
the beft Means for fettling a well-grounded Peace ;
and, in regard of the joint Intereft which both
Nations have in the Matter and End of the Pro-
pofitions^ and according to the Treaty made be-
tween the Kingdoms both ought to have their
Judgment and Advice in agreeing unto, and
framing of, the Proportions] we cannot but in- ,
fift upon our former Defire, That the Honoura-
ble Houfes may be pleafed to authorize their
Committee to confer with us about the beft Way
and Means for removing of our Differences, to
propofe Expedients, and hear what (hall be of-
fered by us, and report the Refults to the Houfes,
that fo we may come to a fpeedy Agreement ;
which (if we (hall meet with the like Inclina-
tions as wefliall bring with us, being refolved, as
in other Things, fo efpecially in the Matter of
the Militia for the full Security of this Kingdom
as of our own, to give all poffiblc Satisfaction,
fo far as may confift with our Covenant and pub-
Y 4 * lie

344 ^e Parliamentary HISTORY

. 22 Car. I. * lie Declarations] we hope may be, by God's

16461 , ' Affiftance, in a very fhort Time effeauated.

~~ -Av llf •' Whereas, otherwife, if we (hall fpend Time in

•' drawing up all our Differences, with the Reafons

* thereof, to prefent in Writing to the Houfes,

* receive their' Anfwers, and give in Replies in like
' Manner, it muft needs prove the Lofs of a great

* deal of precious Time ; may, in this Conjunc-
-, ture of Affairs, be of very dangerous Confequence
,* to both Kingdoms ; and will retard the fending

* of the Proportions, the Difpatch whereof, for

* many Reafons, mould not be longer delayed ;
f efpecially fince we have fo often declared to the
' King, that they are fpeedily to be fent, and the

* Granting of them will be an effectual Means for

* giving Satisfaction to both Kingdoms.

' This we have judged neceffary for us to offer

* as the moft expeditious Way for attaining thofe
' Ends, and that we might clear ourfelves before
« God and the World, that we have neglected no
.' Mean in our Power, which may procure a fpee-

4 dy Peace ; defiring much rather to come to a
c fpeedy Agreement by a friendly Conference, than,
' with Lofs of Time, to reckon up our Differences
' in Writing ; although (if the Pofture of Affairs

* would have admitted of Delay) we mould have

5 accounted it our Advantage firft to have prefent-
* . ed to the Houfes, in Writing, the Reafons for

* the Difference of our Judgment in the Points
f controverted.

* Concerning the Propofttion for Religion ;
' when we were ready to have debated with the
•* Honourable Committee upon the Particulars com-

* municated unto us, by Direction of the Houfes,
' upon thztPrcpo/ition, their Lordmips did acquaint

* us, That they knew not whether it was the In-

* tention of the Houfes to fend to the King the
5 Ordinances paft both Houfes, or to fend any other

* Particulars; and that the Houfes themfelves were
,* to be confulted herein. And therefore that the

* Prspojition concerning Religion (the fettling

* whereof mould be, s^ntl. is, the Chiefeft of the

* Defues

of E N G L A N D. 345

* Defines of both Kingdoms, and for which prin-An. " Car-
4 cipally they entered in Solemn League and Cove- *^6'

" nant) may, with as diftincl: Knowledge, and as
' full Aflurance of the Particulars as is poffible, be,
4 in the Name of both Kingdoms, demanded of the
4 King, and, with Knowledge, granted by his
« Majefty •, and, according to the joint Declaration
4 of both Kingdoms, Truth and Peace may be

* eftablifhed upon a fure Foundation for the prefent
' and future Generations ; our earneft Defire is,

* That a Committee may be appointed, with whom
' we may join for confidering fuch Articles of Re-
4 formation and Uniformity of Church-Govern-
' ment, as are already agreed upon by both Houfes ;
4 that, having joint Confent, they may be fit Mat-
4 ter for the Proportion of Religion to be fent to the
' King's Majefty, with fuch other Masters of

* Church-Government as, we conceive, may be
6 concluded in a Day or two ; they being long
' fince offered to the Houfes, and wherein there
4 can be little Difficulty, and the one and the other
' may be formed up in a Method for a Model of

* Uniformity in Church-Government.

* Without this Agreement in Particulars of
' Church-Government, as well as in the Directory
' of Worfhip and Confeflion of Faith, we are
4 not anfwerable to our Covenant ; our Engage-

* ments and all our Labours and Sufferings are in

* vain ; the very long Confultations of the Divines

* of both Kingdoms are fruitlefs ; the great Ex-
4 peculation not only of the Church of England^

* but of all the Reformed Churches, is fruitrated ;
4 we (hall not know what to anfwer to the Church
4 and Kingdom of Scotland, which will not be fa-
4 tisfied, nor fecured in their Religion, with Ge-
' nerals ; nor can we find any Ground IP fatisfy our

* own Reafon for fending a general Proportion of

* Religion to the King : And therefore we ftill
4 defile the Honourable Houfes, in their Wifdom,
4 to expede us of this Difficulty, That the Propo?
' Jitions may be, with all fpecd, brought to a com-
1 fortable ai;d harmonious Conclufion.'

Tit

An. ^

1546

Tkt Parliamentary HISTORY

^ Car. I. The Parliament's ANSWER to the la ft of the foregoing
46. PAPERS of the Scots Commiflunirs (/).

A$ril. t npHE Lords and Commons, afTembled in Par-
This Anfwer of ' liament, having taken into Confideration
both Houfes to * your Paper of April 6, concerning the Proportions
the laft of them. < fO be fent to the King, do return this Anfwer:

' That we having communicated unto you Tome

* of thofe Propofitions, which we defired, for the pre-
< fent, fhould be fent to his Majefty for a fafe and

* well-grounded Peace ; and finding, upon Perufal
' of your Paper ) of the i6th of March, your Lord-
' fhips have not confented that thofe ' Propofitions
f fhould be fent, that are defired by us, for the Good

* and Security of the Kingdoms of England and
« Ireland, with your Reafons for the fame ; after
6 ferious Confideration thereof, we thought fit to

* adhere to our firft Refolutions, and again to defirs
c your Concurrence for the fending them unto the
' King; and although we clearly fatisfied our own
' Judgments therein, yet, out of our earneft De-
1 fires to carry on all Bufmefs in a brotherly Way,

* we did appoint our Committees to communicate
1 thofe our Refolutions, to fhew the Grounds
' thereof, and to remove any Doubts that might
f ftick therein with your Lordfhips : All which be-

* ing confidercd, and that we have never denied

* our Confent that fuch Propofitions fhould be pre-
' fented to the King, as your Lordfhips conceived

* to be for the Good and Safety of the Kingdom
'of Scotland, the Matter in your Paper of the 6th

* of April we did not expect ; wherein you do

* defire, That the Refolutions of both Houjes (after

* fo long and mature Deliberation) Jhould be fubjetted
' to the Debates and Alterations of a Committee of both

* Houfes, tb be joined with you for that Purpofe ; and

* that upon Grounds which we can by no Means
' admit of, in regard that, by the Treaty, both

* Kingdoms are not bound to a joint Advice and
' Judgment in framing the Propofitions, as is affirm-

' ed

(/} This Avyivtr is entered in the Jwrnulf of both Houfes, but
we find nojte to Ui« otUr two Paf-sri,

of ENGLAND.

' ed in your Paper; but that no Ceflfation, nor ^

* any Pacification or Agreement for Peace whatfo-

' ever, is to be made by either Kingdom, or the April"
' Armies of either Kingdom, without the mutual

* Advice and Confent of both Kingdoms ; which

* is all, in this Particular, they are obliged to by
' the Treaty ; and therefore, out of our earneft De-
' fires to make Ufe of the prefent Opportunity for
' fettling the Peace of the Kingdoms, and that we

* may clear ourfelves, before God and the World,
' that we have negle&ed no Means which may
' procure the fame ; efpecially fince, as your Lord-

* {hips well remember, we have fo often declared
' to the King that they are fpeedily to be fent ;

* and the Granting of them will be an effectual

* Means to give Satisfaction to both Kingdoms,

* we do again defire your Confent that thofe Pro-
' po/itionsy as we have fent them to your Lord-
^fhips, may be fent to his Majefty ; and we fhall
' fpeedily communicate to your Lordfhips the two

* other Proportions concerning Delinquents and the
' City of London, that they may be fent with the
e others.'

A DECLARATION of the COMMONS of England,
ajjembled in Parliament, of their true Intentions
concerning the ancient and Fundamental Govern-
ment of the Kingdom ; the Government of the
Church ; the prefent Peace ; fecuring the People
again/1 all arbitrary Government j and maintain-
ing a right Under/landing between the two King-
doms of England and Scotland, according to the
Covenant and Treaties (m}.

E the Commons, in Parliament aftembled, And a Declara-

. W4' reTnberi?s th,f>. in UIA B,esinning ~"£ *

* of this War, divers rroteitations, Declarations, occafion.

4 and

(m) Four thoufand of thefe Declaration! were ordered by the Com-
mons to be piinted for the Ufe of the Parliament, and that the Knights
and Burgefles of the feveral Counties do take Care they be forthwith
lent down and publi/hed in the refpeftive Counties and Places for
which they ferve j that fewer than one hundred be not fent to one
County, and as many more as /hall be neceflary ; and that they be fee
up and fixsd ia every Parilh-Church by the Church-

Parliamentary HISTORY

and Suggeftions were fpread abroad by the King,
and thofe that did adhere unto him; whereby
our fmcere Intentions for the Public Good were

* mifreprefented, and the Minds of many pofTefied

* with a Belief that our Refolutions and Proceed-

* ings were grounded upon needlefs Fears and

* Jealoufies ; and that there was no neceflary and

* juft Caufe of the prefent War ; the Untruth and

* Deceitfulnefs whereof, by the good Hand of
' God, miraculoufly difcovering the Secrets of our

* Enemies, difpoflng and bleffing our Affairs,

* Time and Experience have fmce fully manifefted,

* to the undeceiving of thofe that were feduced

* thereby ; which Miftakes of the People, by this

* Artifice and Cunning of the Enemy, for fome

* Time much blemifhed the Juftice of this Caufe,

* and not only prolonged the War, but hazarded

* the Succefs thereof; and if the Enemy, by thefe

* Means, had prevailed, how dangerous the Con-

* fequences would have been is moft apparent :

* And now obferving, that (when it hath pleafed

* God fo to blefs our Endeavours, and the Actions
4 of our Forces and Armies, as that the Enemy

* is in Defpair to accomplilh his Defigns by W^ar,
4 and we are brought into good Hopes of attain-
4 ing and enjoying that which, with fo much Ex-
4 pence of Blood and Treafure, we have con-
' tended for) there are ftill the fame Spirits ftirring,
' and Humours working, as in the Beginning, tho'
' under other Difguifes, and upon other Grounds ;
4 putting falfe Conftru&ions as well upon what
' hath already patted the Houfes, as upon the
' Things under prefent Debate; andmifreprefenting
4 our Intentions in the Ufe we defire to make of this
4 great Succefs which God hath given us, and the

* happy Opportunity to fettle Truth and Peace in

* the three Kingdoms; not ceafing, as well in Print
4 as otherwife, to beget a Belief that we now de-

* fire to exceed or fwerve from our firft Aims and

4 Principles in the Undertaking this War, and to"
4 recede from the Sclsmn League and Covenant^ and,

1 Treaties

of ENGLAND.

* Treaties between the two Kingdoms ; and that An

* we would prolong the uncomfortable Troubles
' and bleeding Diftra&ions, in order to alter the
' Fundamental Conftitution and Frame of this
' Kingdom ; to leave all Government in the

* Church loofe and unfettled, and ourfelves to ex-

* ercife the fame arbitrary Power over the Perfans

* and Eftates of the Subjects, which this prefent

* Parliament hath thought fit to abolifh, by talc-

* in<?;away the Star-Chamber^ High-Commijfion, and
' other arbitrary Courts, and the exorbitant Power

* of the Council-Table :

* All which being ferioufly confidered by us,

* although our Actions and Proceedings from Time

* to Time, fmce the Beginning of this Parliament,

* and particularly in the managing this great Caufe,
' are the beft Demonftrations of our Sincerity and
*• Faithfulnefs to the Public ; yet forefeeing that,

* if Credit be given to fuch dangerous Infmuations
' and falfe Surmifes, the fame will not only con-
4 tinue the prefent Calamities, and involve us i»to

* new and unexpected Imbroilments, but iilcewife

* inevitably endanger the happy IflTue and Succefs

* of our Endeavours, which, by God's Bleffing, we
' may otherwife hope for :

4 We do declare , That our true and real Inten-

* tions are, and our Endeavours {hall be, to fettle

* Religion in the Purity thereof, according to the

* Covenant ; to maintain the ancient and Funda-

* mental Government of this Kingdom ; to pre-
' ferve the Rights and Liberties of the Subject } to
4 lay hold on the firft Opportunity of procuring a

* fafe and well-grounded Peace in the three King-

* doms, and to keep a good Underftanding between

* the two Kingdoms of England and Scstland^ ac-

* cording to the Grounds exprefled in the Solemn
4 League and Covenant^ and Treaties ; which we

* defire may be inviolably obferved on both Parts.

' And, 'left thefe Generals fhould not -give a

* fufficient Satisfaction, we have thought fit, to
< the end Men may be no longer abufed into a
6 Mifbelief of our IntentionSjOr aMifunderfhmding

35°

An. az Car. I
1646.

*Tbe Parliamentary HISTORY*

of our Actions, to make this further Enlargement
upon the Particulars ;

' And, firft, concerning Church-Government :
We having fo fully declared for aPrefbyterial Go-
vernment, having fpeht fo much Time, taken fo
much Pains for the Settlement of it, pafled moft of
the Particulars brought to us from the Aflembly
of Divines, (called onjy to advife of fuch Things
as (hall be required of them by both or either of
the Houfes of Parliament) without any material
Alterations, faving in the Point of Commiffioners;
and having publiftied feveral Ordinances for put-
ting the fame in Execution, becaufe we cannot
confent to the granting of an arbitrary and unlimit-
ed Power and Jurifdiction to near ten thoufand
Judicatures to be creeled within this Kingdom 5
and this demanded in fuch a Way as is not con-
iiftent with the Fundamental Laws and Govern-
ment of the fame ; and, by neceflary Confe-
quence, excluding the Power of the Parliament
of England in the Exercife of that Jurifdiction,
and whereof we have received no Satisfaction in
Point of Confcience or Prudence : nor have we
yet refolved how a due Regard may be had, that
tender Confciences, which differ not in Funda-
mentals of Religion, may be fo provided for, as
may ftand with the Word of God, and the Peace
of the Kingdom.

' It muft therefore feem very fhrange to us, if any
fober and modeft Man fhould entertain a Thought
that we ftiould fettle no Government in the
Church, when our Unwillingnefs to fubjecl our-1
felves and the People of this Land to this vaft
Power, hath been a great Caufe that the Go-
vernment hath not been long lince eftabliftied :
And we deftre it may be obferved, That we
have had the more Reafon, by no Means to part
with this Power out of the Hands of the Civil
Magiftrate, lince the Experience of all Ages
will manifeft, That the Reformation and Purity
of Religion, and the Prefervation and Protection

of ENGLAND. 35i

of the People of God in this Kingdom, hath, An. 22, Car. .1.
under God, been by the Parliament, and their
Exercife of this Power : And our full Refolu- *" A"ril>
tions ftill. are, fmcerely, really, and conftantly,
through the Grace of God, to endeavour the
Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of
England and Ireland, in Do&rine, Worftiip,
Discipline, and Government, according to the
Word of God, and the Example of the bcft
Reformed Churches, and according to our Cove-
nant. Whence it may appear to all Men, That
thofe Rumours and Afperfions, whereby the
Minds of Men are fo difturbed for Want of the
prefent fettling of Church-Government, are to

* be applied to thofe who (having a fufficient Power
and Direction from the Houfes on that Behalf)
have not as yet put the fame in Execution.

* And whereas a fafe and good Peace is the right

* End of a juit War ; there is nothing we have
' more earneftly defired, nor more conftantly la-

* boured after ; and to that Purpofe, both Houfes
' of Parliament have framed feveral Proportions to

* be Tent to the Kin?, fuch as they hold neceflary
c for the prefent and future Safety and Good of this

* Kingdom ; fome of which are tranfmitted from

* both Koufcs to our Brethren of Scotland, where

* they now remain ; whofe Confent, that they

* may fpeedily be fent to the King, we {hall not

* doubt to obtain, fince the Parliament of Eng-
land is and ought to be fole and proper Judge of
what may be for the Good of this Kingdom ; th*
fame Liberty having been always by us admitted
to the Kingdom of Scotland in all Things that
concern that Kingdom ; wherein we are fo far
from altering the Fundamental Conftitution and
Government of this Kingdom, by King, Lords,
and Commons, that we have only defired, That,
with the Confent of the King, fuch Powers may
be fettled in the two Houfes, without which we;
can have no Ailurance but that the like, or
jrrciuer, Mifchiefs than thefe which God hath
hitherto citii Cicd i."; liorn, may breuk out again*

' and

Tie Parliamentary HISTORY

and engage us in a fecond and more deftructiv6
'- War.

* Whereby it plainly appears our Intentions are
c not to change the ancient Frame of Government
' within this Kingdom, but to obtain the End of

* the Primitive Inftitution of all Government, the
4 Safety and Weal of the People ; not judging it
4 wife or fafe, after fo bitter Experience of the
c bloody Confequences of a pretended Power of

* the Militia in the King, to leave any colourable
4 Authority in the fame for the future Attempts of
4 introducing an arbitrary Government over this

* Nation, and protecting Delinquents, Enemies of

* our Religion and Liberties, by Force, from the
4 Juftice of the Parliament j the firft and chiefdt
4 Grounds of the Parliament's taking up Arms in

* this Caufe.

* And although the Neceflity of War hath given
4 fome Difturbance to legal Proceedings ; flopped
*• the ufual Courfe of Juftice; enforced the Parlia-
4 ment, for the Prefervation of this State, to im-

* pofe and require many great and unufual Pay-
' ments from the good Subjects of this Kingdom ;

* and to take extraordinary Ways for procuring of
4 Monies for their many prefling Occafions : It
' having pleafed God to reduce our Affairs into a

* more hopeful Condition than heretofore, we do

* declare, That we will not, nor any one, by Co-
' lour of Authority derived from us, (hall, interrupt

* the ordinary. Courfe of Juftice in the feveral

* Courts and Judicatories of this Kingdom, nor

* intermeddle in Cafes of private Intercft other-

* where determinate ; unlefs it be of jVIale-Ad-

* miniftration of Juftice, wherein we fhall fee and

* provide, that Right be done, and Punifliment in-

* flicted as there ftiall be Occafion, according to
' the Laws of the Kingdom, and the Truft re-
' pofed in us.

4 And as both Houfes have already, for the Eafe

* and Benefit of the People, taken away the Court
4 of Wards and Liveries, with all Tenures in Capite,
1 and by Knight's Service, fo we will take efpecial

4 Care

of ENGLAND.

Care, that as fpeedy and as great Eafe may be An.
had in future Levies of Money, by reducing of
Garrifons, and otherwife, as the preffing Occa-
fions of the Kingdom can poffibly admit} and will
provide, by bringing Delinquents to due Punifh-
ment, who have unnaturally fomented and main-
tained this prefent War againft the Parliament
and Kingdom ; that there may be a fair Pqflibi-
lity of fatisfying the Difburfements, clearifig the
Engagements, and repairing the Lofles of thofe
who have faithfully and chearfully laid out them-
felves, and fuffered for the Public Service ; un-
lefs, by too great Credulity given to falfe Sug-
geftions, we be difabled from effecting what we
defire.

4 Laftly, Whereas both Nations have entered
into a Solemn League and Covenant, and Treaties
have been made and concluded between the two
Kingdoms of England and Scotland, we have had
an efpecial Regard of the Treaties ; and have
not, to our beft Judgments, failed of the Per-
formance of any Thing which was on our Part to
be performed* And for the Covenant, we have
been, and ever (hall be, very careful duly toob-
ferve the fame; that as nothing hath been done^
fo nothing {hall be done, by us, repugnant to
the true Meaning and Intention thereof j and do
prefume that no Interpretation of it (fo far as it
concerns the Kingdom of England) {hall, by any,
be endeavoured to be. impofed on us than we
ourfelves do know to be fuitable to the firft juft
Ends for which it was agreed ; and we do ex-
pect, That the People of England {hould not re-
ceive Impreifions of any forced Conftru&ions of
that Covenant ; which, in cafe of any Doubt arif-
ing, is only to be expounded by them by whofe
Authority it was eftabliftied in this Kingdom,
who will not depart from thofe Grounds and Prin-
ciples upon which it was framed and founded/

The foregoing Declaration was not pafled with-
out great Oppofitiori, every Claufe being re&lred
VOL. XIV. Z by

April.

Several Letters
printed by Order
of the Parlia-
ment, relating to
the Succefs of
their Army.

Tbe Parliamentary HISTORY

- On one Divifion the Numbers for ft
were 67 againft 41 ; on another, 71 againft 43.
And the Commons were in fo great Hafte to com-
municate it to the Nation, that it was printed and
publifhed the very next Day after it had parted
their Houfe, without fo much as afking the Con-
currence of the Lords.

About this Time alfo the following*!,^/'; were
printed by Order of Parliament. Mention is made
in the Journals of their being read, but they are
not entered there, nor in Rujhwortb's or Hit/bands' s
Collefiions ; and we give them from the Original
Edition («). And nrft

A Letter to Major-General Browne, from Colo-
nel Payne, concerning a Defeat of the King's
Horfe at Fartngdon, read in the Houfe of Com-
mons the 1 4th of April.

Honourable Sir,

TH E laft Night I had Intelligence the Ene-
my were drawn out of Oxford, and gave
out they intended to plunder Nnunbam ; where-
fore I fent to Colonel Betfiuorth, to defire him
to draw his Horfe towards Abingdon, which he
did ; but early this Morning we had Intelligencer
that 600 Horfe marched out of Oxen, thro' Comp-
ton and F'ifield ; whereupon I commanded forth
our Horfe and Dragoons, and marched with Co-
lonel Betfaortb after the Enemy ; and it pleafcd
God to direct us that we found them at Faring -
don, and quartered at the Towns thereabouts,
We had gallant hunting them from Place to Place
over the Hills, and purfued them into Faringikn
Town ; and afterwards we difcovered a goc'l
Party of about 200 between the two Coxwelh,
who ran down into a Meadow, and would have
parlied to furrender their Horfe and Arms, but:
our Men fell on them and took them all, fave
very few that efcaped. Afterwards we gleaned

4 up
*) Printed for M. Spark; J, Rttbwtll, and r. I'liJrrh'.'I, if 46. -

of ENGLAND.

up divers more in fereral Places, fo that I am An. 22 Car. p
confident that Party is fo broken that the King '646.
will fcarce be able to get fuch a Body of Horfe "
again in the Kingdom. We took above 300
Horfe, and almoft as many Prifoners : There
were brought, this Evening, about 250 into
Abingdon ; the Major, and moft of the Officers of
Sir William Campion's Regiment, belonging to
Banburyy are Prifoners : It was efteemed the beft
Regiment the King had ; and the News of their
Engagement being reported at Oxford this Day,
that they would either come off with Honour or
be loft, they fadly replied, If that Regiment were
loir, they were all undone.
4 There was but one Man (lain on our Part, and
* not many on the Eenemy's.

SIR,

Tour mojl bumble

Abingdon, April 3,

j646- and faithful Servant,

GEO. PAYNE.

A Letter from Col. Mitton, concerning the Sutr-
render of Ruthin Caftle to him, for the life of the
King and Parliament, read the 1 3th of April.

To the. Honourable WILLIAM LENTHALL, £fa
Speaker of the Honourable Houfe of Commons.

SIR,

TH E reducing of this Caffle of Ruthin hath
coft me more Time and Ammunition than
I expected when firft I laid Siege to it : At laft,
having a Mine almoft in Readinefs to fpring,
and Batteries prepared for a Demi-Cannon and
a Culverin to play upon it, it was this Day agreed
to be furrendered upon certain Conditions ;
which I was the more willing to accept, having
perfect Information by fome that efcaped out of
the Caftle, that there were Provifions in it for

Z 2 * tWO

356

An. az Car. I.
1646.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

two Months longer, which now I find to "be
true : And if I mould have forced it I muft have
hazarded many Men, and made the Place unfer-
viceable, which is of great Ufe to the Reduce-
ment of this Country, it being the moft conve-
nient Place for a Garrifon in all Nq&k-ffaks,
as Things now ftand with us.

* Yeftcrday, before the Break of Day, a Party of
the Enemy, out of Denbigh Caftle, being about fix
Score, and thirty mounted Firelocks, fell upon
Captain Richard Price's Quarters, within two
Miles of this Town ; but he was vigilant, and
his Scouts performed their Duty fo well, that they
were drawn into the Field before they came upon
them, which gave him Opportunity to avoid
them, and convey the Alarm to this Town ; and-
thereupon Colonel Carter, with a ftanding Horfe-
Guard, which we are fain to keep in the Field
conftantly to fecure our Out-quarters, and Cap-
tain Sim/ties, with my own Troop, which was
then upon the Guard in this Town, drew out and
fell between them and Denbigh ; and within half
a Mile of their Garrifon met with them, and
charged them fo gallantly, that they broke in
upon them, killed feven of them, as is faid, up-
on the Place ; and, in the Purfuit, took four
Captains, one Lieutenant, two Cornets, divers
Troopers, and about forty Horfe, with the Lofe
of but one Man on our Side.

* The Siege at Holt hath of late been of great
Difficulty and Hazard to thofe few Men I have
there : For the drawing off the Che/hire Fire-
locks from that Service, without my Privity,
gave the Enemy an Advantage to burn the Guard
the Firelocks kept, (which coft the Country much
to fortify) and above forty dwelling Houfes in the
Town;, and expo fed rny Men (who lay in open.
Quarters, and were fewer in Number than the
Enemy within were) to their Power, which ne-
ceflitated my Men to be upon continual Duty.

* Upon the firft of April the Enemy fallied out
and fell upon Major Sadler's Quarters, refolving

4 to

of ENGLAND.

* to put all my Men in that Houfe to the Sword, An-

* which they had been like to effect, had not a

' Guard which was placed in the Mount, erected A rii
' by .us three Days before, relieved them. In this
' Storm I loft fix Men, and fourteen wounded; of

* the Enemy there were killed their Commander,
' ( Captain CoUingham^ a Papift) a Lieutenant, and

* two more, and many wounded : There hath been

* never a Day fmce but they fallied out conftantly
c twice or thrice a-day, and were as conftantly
' beaten in.

c This Service, and the furniming of fuch Gar-
e rifons which are reduced, occafions the Expence of
' very much Powder and Match ; and therefore I
e humbly defire that the Honourable Houfe will be
e pleafed to grant that I may have 100 Barrels of
' Powder, and 4 or 500 Firelocks fent me, and that

* fome Courfe may be prefcribed to convey it down
' fpeedily ; the Carriage and Convoy of the laft

* Powder I had, coft above half fo much as the
e Powder was worth : And further, that they will
' be pleafed to appoint a Governor for this Caftle.

* Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Mafon is a very

< faithful, active, and godly Gentleman j and the

* mod knowing Man in his Profeflion that we have

* in thefe Parts, having been a Soldier above twenty

< Years, and loft his Command in Ireland^ becaufe
' he refufed to bear Arms againft the Parliament ;
' and, if this Place were worthy of him, I mould
' make bold to recommend him to their Confidera-
' tion. This, neverthelefs, I leave to their Wif-
*• doms to determine, and reft

Your very humble Servant,

Rutbin, April 8.

1646. THO. MITTON.

The Commons agreed to this laft Requeft of

Colonel Mitton ; ordered him the Thanks of their

Houfe, and a Reward of 50 /. to his Chaplain,

Mr, Fogge, for bringing the News.

Z 3

*Tbe Parliamentary HISTORY

Two other Letters to the Speaker from Mr.
Rujbworth.

' IT "I A V I N G been employed in the agitating
' IX of the Treaty for the furrendering of Exe-
4 ter, I might crave Pardon if I give you not fo
4 full an Account of our Proceedings here as I de-

* fire. We had to do with Lawyers and Civilians,
c who lengthened out our Debate by their Nice-

* ties, fo that the Treaty ended not till the Day
4 of the writing hereof, when they finifhed the Ar-

* tides, and agreed to march forth on Monday
4 next. The Conditions were honourable, viz.
' in brief, To march out with their Arms, Colours
c flying, Drums beating, and Bullets, to Oxford,
c and the Cornijh into Cornwall.

4 I will not trouble you with Particulars, but

* fend you the Articles by the next. Hoftages

* were delivered for the Performance of the Things
4 promifed ; and, for farther Aflurance unto us,
4 three ftrong Forts were delivered up unto us in

* Hand, as hath been touched before. The Townf-
c men were very glad of the Agreement.

4 The General is this Night come to Tiverton,
4 and intends To-morrow to be before Barnftaple,
4 and to fummon it.

4 The Treaty was abfolutely concluded Yefter-
e day in Exeter : We fat up Night and Day about it.

4 I will not trouble you any more till a further
' Opportunity j but remain,

o J R,

Calumb-Joba, jtyril g,

late at Night. Your mojl bumble Servant,

]. RUSHWORTH.

P. S. ' At Market-Jew, near the Mount, we
4 took lately of the Mount-men 60 Prifoners, the
4 moft of that Garrifon ; alfo a Captain in Pen-
4 dennis came off unto us with 80 Men more. We
4 underftand that in Pendennh they have nothing.

4 but

0f ENGLAND. 359

but tainted fait Beef, and that they cannot long An. 22 Car. I.
fubfift ; they have but little Bread, and their t l6*6'
Wine almoft fpent. We hope well (hortly of A'a "~
both Places.

The other Letter was thus :

SIR,

^THOUGH I have but little News, yet I
•*• could not omit this Opportunity of fending
to you : We entered the City of Exeter on Mon-
day laft, according to the Articles (/). Sir "John
Berkeley the Governor, with about 2000, are
marched forth; 700 whereof being Cornifh, as
foon as they were out of the City Gates, faced
IVejlwardy and, refolving for their own Homes,
cried out thus : Every Man to his own Home,
Every Man to his own Home ; and fo laying down
their Arms departed accordingly. The like Re-
folution had moft of the reft, fo that Sir John
was like to have but a fmall Remnant to do his
Majefty any Service at Oxford. The Princefs
Henrietta, and her Governefs (/£), went forth
with them, leaving behind them in the City at
leaft three Months Provifions, 150 Barrels of
Powder, about 1500 Mufkets, and above 40
Pieces of Ordnance.'

Tour mojl humble Servant,
]. RUSHWORTH.

April 21. In the Commons Journals of this Day
we met with an Affair, which muft have given
great Difguft to the Prefbyterian Party. But be-
fore we enter into farther Particulars, it is necef-
fary to obeferve, That, on the 23d of March laft, A Petition to the
the Aflembly of Divines, then fitting at Wejlmin- Commons from
Jler, had prefented a Petition to the Commons, in ^ine^'dSared
relation to fome Claufes of an Ordinance lately a Breach of Pri-
pafled, which they apprehended to be an Encroach- vilcge.
mentof the Laity upon their Spiritual Jurifdiclion.
Z 4 But

fi) Sir Tbomat Fairfax'} Summons, the Governor's Anfwer, and
the Articles at large, are in Ruftnutrtb, Vol. VI. p. 26 r, et fey.
(*) The Countefs of Dalkeitb.

360 The Parliamentary HISTORY,

An. 22 Car. I. But General Ludlow (a), fpeaking of this Kind of
164.6. Petitions, calls it ' An Attempt to facrifice all our
April Civil Liberties to the Ambition of the Prefbyterian
Clergy ; and to veft them with a Power as great
or greater than that which had been declared into-
lerable in the Bifhops before.' However, on the
nth of Apnl^ this Affair was taken into farther
Confideration by the Commons ; when the Majority
of that Houfe were fo far from being of the fame
Opinion with the Petitioners, that they voted the Pe-
tition to be a Breach of the Privilege of Parliament :
But upon this there were two Divifions of the
Houfe. On the previous Queftion, 1 06 againft 85;
and, on the main Queftion, 88 againft 76. The

Tellers for the Majority, Sir John Evelyn
and Sir Arthur Hefelrig ; for the Minority, Mr. Holies
and Sir Philip Stapylton : A Circumftance which
confirms our former Obfervation, of the great In-
creafe of Strength the Independent Party had, lately,
acquired by the new Elections. — The Petition be-
forementioned is not entered in the "Journals, nor
in any of the Collections of thefe Times. Mr. Ru/h-
worth^ indeed, has given us the ^ueftlms after*
wards propofed to the AfTembly of Divines ; but
takes no Notice of the Petition itfelf, of the Re-
folutions of the Commons in Confequence thereof,
nor of the following Paper entered in their "Jour-
nals^ which was voted, Claufe by Claufe, in hesc
Verba;

A NARRATIVE of the Matter of Fa£l concerning
the Breach of the Privilege of Parliament by the
PETITION of the AJJembly of Divines.

' *"lp H E Parliament, by the Fundamental Laws

* -I- and Conftitutions of this Kingdom, hath

* this great Privilege, to be the Supreme Judicatory;

* aiid

(a] Memoirs, Vol. I. p. 188.

We have feen a Print, publifhed at this Time, reprefcnting a Pope,

Prelate, and a Prdbyter, feated together upon a Bench, with this

a otto over him, Tria junfia in uno. This was complained of to

Mrliament, and Enquiry ordered to be made after the Publisher ;

Pa the Refult thereof does not appear upon the Journals,

0f ENGLAND. 361

and hath Jurifdi&ion in all Caufes, Spiritual and An. 22 Car. I.
Temporal, and to delegate fo much of this Power l546-
as they think fit : And, when they have declared l v
their Judgments, and (given their Directions in
a Law, the fame is hinding to all Perfon? of this
Kingdom, of what Quality foever.
' The Aflembly of Divines, called by Ordinance
of Parliament, are authorized and injoined by the
faid Ordinance, from Time to Time, during this
prefent Parliament, or until further Order be
taken by both the faid Houfes, to treat of fuch
Matters therein mentioned, as (hall be propofed
unto them, from Time to Time, by both or ei-
ther of the Houfes of Parliament, and no other;
and to deliver their Opinions and Advices, of or
touching the Matters aforefaid, as (hall be moft
agreeable to the Word of God, to both or either of
the faid Houfes of Parl lament, from Time to Time,
in fuch Manner and Sort as by both or either of
the faid Houfes fhall be required ; with a Prohi-
bition, that they do not aflume to exercife any
Jurifdi£t,ion, Power, or Authority, Ecclefiaftical
whatlbever, or any other Power, than what in
the faid Ordinance is particularly exprefTed.
* The Aflembly are further authorifed, by Or-
dinance of Parliament, the I2th of Oflober, 1643,
to treat among themfelves of fuch a Difcipline and
Government as may be moft agreeable to God's
holy Word, and moft apt to procure and preferve
the Peace of the Church at home, and nearer
Agreement with the Church of Scotland, and
other Reformed Churches abroad ; and to deli-
ver their Opinions and Advice therein, with all
convenient Speed, to the Houfes : Whereupon
they gave their Advice, before the Houfes declared
their Judgment, in the Ordinance for Commif-
fioners.

' The Parliament having received the Advice of
the Aflembly concerning Prefbyterial Govern-
ment ; and particularly, That Jefus Chrift hath
placed in the Miniftcrs and Elders of his Churches

4 the

The Parliamentary HISTORY

* the Power of keeping away fcanclalous and un-
' worthy Perfons from the Lord's Table ;

' Both Houfes, after mature Deliberation had
' thereupon, did, notwithstanding, ordain,\>y aLaw,

* That, in Cafes not enumerated, the Commif-
' fioners, by them to be appointed according to the
' faid Law, mould exercile fo much of the faid

* Power as in that Law is provided.

c The Aflembly are not authorifed, as an Af-

* fembly, by any Ordinance or Order of Parlia-

* ment, to interpret the Covenant,, efpecially in re-

* lation to any Law made or to be made ; nor,

* fince the Law pafled both Houfes concerning the

* Commifiioners, have been required by both or

* either of the Houfes of Parliament, or had any
e Authority before by Parliament,^ to deliver their
e Opinions to the Houfes, in Matters already
' judged and determined by them : Neither have
< they Power, either to debate or vote, whether
4 what is pafled as a Law by both Houfes, be agree-,
' ing or difagreeing to the Word of God, until

* they be thereunto required.

Matter of Fa£l arifmg from the Petition itfelf.
' The Aflembly of Divines, under the Name of
c a Petition^ dated March 23, 1645, attefted by

* the Prolocutor and the two Scribes ;

Firjl^ t Do oppofe their Judgment, as an Af-
' fembly, in relation to a Law pafled both Houfes»
4 unto the Judgment of Parliament, being not

* thereunto authorifed nor required j affirming,

* That the Provifion of Commiflioners to judge of
' Scandals, not enumerated, appears to their Con-
4 fciences to be fo contrary to that Way of Go-

* vernment which Chrift hath appointed in his
6 Church, (in that it giveth a Power to judge of

* Perfons to come to the Sacrament, unto fuch as

* Chrift hath not given that Power,) and to be, in
c many Refpecls in the faid Petition mentioned, fo

* difagreeable to the Covenant, that they dare not

* pradtife according to that Provifion.

Secondly,

of E N G L A N D. .363

Secondly, e The Aflembly, in their Petition, do An. ^^ Car. I.
declare, That the Power of judging in Cafes not
enumerated, (placed, in Part, by the faid Laws,
in Commiflioners) and to keep back from the Sa-
crament all fuch as are notorioufly fcandalous,
doth belong to the feveral Elderfhips by divine
Right, and by the Will and Appointment of
Chrift; excluding thereby the faid Commiffion-
ers, and in them the Parliament, from the Power
and Right to judge in Cafes of Scandal not enu-
merated.'

A Committee was appointed to communicate,
in a fair Manner, unto the Aflembly of Divines,
the Vote of the Houfe upon this Breach of Privi-
lege in their Petition ; and to enlarge themfelves
upon the feveral Heads of the foregoing Narra-
tive.

The next Day the Commons took into Confide-
ration divers Queftions to be propounded to the
Aflembly of Divines, concerning the Jus divinum
of Church-Government ; which were read one by
one, and, upon the Queftion, feverally rcfolvedy
and were in bcec Verba :

' Whereas it is refolved by the Houfe of Com- onions ordered
mons, that all Perfons guilty of notorious and fcan- to be pmpofed to
dalous Offences, {hall be fufpended from the Sa- that Aifcmbly.
crament of the Lord's Supper : The Houfe of Com-
mons defire to be fatisfiecl, by the Aflembly of Di-
vines, ,in thefe Queftions following:

1. ' Whether the Parochial and Congregational
Elderfhips, appointed by Ordinance of Parliament,
or any other Congregational or Prefbyterial Elder-
fhips, are Jure divino, and by the Will and Ap-
pointment of Jefus Chrift j and whether any par-
ticular Church-Government be "Jure divino ; and
what that Government is ?

2. c Whether all the Members of the faid El-
derfhips, as Members thereof, or which of them,
arc Jure divino, and by the Will and Appointment
of Jefus Chrift? 3. 'Whether

The Parliamentary HISTORY

' 3. ' Whether the fuperior Aflemblies or Elder-
fhips, viz. the Claffical, Provincial, and National,
whether all, or any of them, and which of them,
are 'Jure dlvlno^ and by the Will and Appointment
of jefus Chrift ?

4. * Whether Appeals from Congregational El-
derfhips to the Claffical, Provincial, and National
Affemblies, or to any of them, and to which of
them, are Jure divino^ and by the Will and Ap-
pointment of Jefus Chrift ; and are their Powers,
upon fuch Appeals, Jure divino^ and by the Will
and Appointment of Jefus Chrift ?

5. * Whether Oecumenical Aflemblies are Jure
divino ; and whether there be Appeals from any of
the former Aflemblies to the faid Oecumenical Ju-
re divino^ and by the Will and Appointment of
Jefus Chrift ?

6. * Whether, by the Word of God, the Power
of judging and declaring what are fuch notorious
and fcandalous Offences, for which Perfons guilty
thereof are to be kept from the Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper ; and of conventing before them>
trying, and actual fufpending from the Sacrament
of the Lord's Supper, fuch Offenders accordingly,
is either in the Congregational Elderfhip or Pref-
bytery, or in any other Elderfhip, Congregation,
or Perfons ; and whether fuch Powers are in thern
only, or in any of them, and in which of them,
Jure divino^ and by the Will and Appointment of
Jefus Chrift ?

7. * Whether there be any certain and particu-
lar Rules expreffed in the Word of God to direcl:
the Elderihips or Prcfbyteries, Congregations or
Perfons, or any of them, in the Exercife and Ex-
ecution of the Powers aforefaid j and what are
thofe Rules ?

8. * Is there any Thing contained in the Word
of God, that theSupremeMagiftracy, in aChrifti-
an State, may not judge and determine what are
the aforefaid notorious and fcandalous Offences, and
the Manner of Sufpenfion for the fame , and in
what Particulars, concerning the Premifes, is the

faid

of ENGLAND.

f'aid Supreme Magistracy by the Word of God ex- An
eluded ?

9. ' Whether the Provifion of Commiflioners to
judge of Scandals not enumerated, as they are au-
thorifed by the Ordinance of Parliament, be con-
trary to that Way of Government which Chrift
hath appointed in his Church ; and wherein are
they fo contrary ?'

In anfwer to thefe Particulars the Commons de-
fired the Aflembly of Divines to give their Proofs
from Scripture j and to fet down the feveral Texts
thereof in the exprefs Words of the fame. And

Ordered, That every Minifter, prefent at the
Debate of any of thefe Queftions, do, upon every
Refolution which (hall be prefented to the Houfe
concerning the fame, fubfcribe his Name, either
with the Affirmative or Negative, as he gives his
Vote ; and that thofe that diflent from the major
Part, fhall fet down their pofitive Opinions, with
the exprefs Texts of Scripture upon which they
are grounded. Alfo that the Committee, that is
appointed to acquaint the Aflembly of Divines
with the Breach of Privilege in their laft Petition^
do deliver unto them the foregoing Queftions.

April 23. This Day Lieutenant-General Crom-
well making his Appearance in the Houfe after fe-
veral Months Abfence, the Commons ordered the
Speaker to return him their hearty Thanks for his
great and faithful Services, done to this Kingdom
and to this Parliament.

dpril 25. The Commons came to the following
Refolutian*) viz.

i. ' That Notice be given to Sir Thomas Fair- Refoiutionoftfce
fax. That if the King fhall, under his Hand, di- Commons is t»
rented to both Houfes of Parliament, fend unto p^c* "from' tKel
him, or any other Commander in the Service of King to their
the Parliament, any Letter or Mejjags concerning Arn|y«
Peace, the fame fhall be immediately conveyed un-
to the Houfes, to be confidcred of by both Houfes,

and

366 7%? Parliamentary HISTORY

An. zz Car. I. and by the Commiflioners of the Parliament 6^
, )646- Scotland.

"April."1 2' ' That no Commander- in Chief, Officer, or

Soldier whatfoever, in the Service of the Parlia-
ment, . mail, otherwife than as aforefaid, entertain
or receive any Meflage or Overture of Peace' from
the King, or any other Perfon adhering to him, or
in Arms againft the Parliament.

3. c And in cafe any fuch Perfon mall prefume
to make any Overture of Peace, otherwife than as
aforefaid, he fhall be apprehended and proceeded
againft as a Spy, according to the Rules of War.*

The Committee of the Army was ordered to

fend thefe Votes to the General and other Officers

and Commanders in the Service of the Parliament.;

the Care of which was particularly recommended

. to Lieutenant-General Cromwell.

Four more Pa- April 2j. The Commons took into Confidera-
pers from the tion four Papers from the Commiflioners of the
scots Commif- pari|ament of Scotland, which were read. Thefe

toners prefented , ji- /in • TV/T

to that Houfe. being very long and tedious, we mall give Mr.
Ru/hwortb's Abftract of them ; obferving that, in
his Collections, they are placed inftead of thofe an-
nexed to that Preface, which had given fuch Of-
fence to both Houfes as to be ordered to be burnt
by the common Hangman, fofne Days before (b}.

The firft Paper contained their Anfwer to the
whole Proportions of Ptace.

The Second contained the Reafons of their Dif-
ferences about the Proportions concerning the Mi-
litia.

The Third contained Citations of PafTages out
of feveral Declarations of the Houfes, concerning
the Militia and Uniformity in Religion.

The Fourth contained Reafons why the Treaty
• made at Edinburgh, Nov. 28, 1643, is a Treaty.

In the/r/tf Paper they remonftrate thus, « As the
c Matter of Religion, by reafon of the Neceflity

' and

(i) The fccond Paper in the Collefiient, is flyled the Third in the
Journals j the Third, the Fourth 5 and the Fourth, the Second,

of E N G L A N D. 367

and incomparable Excellency thereof, deferveth An. 22 Car. I.
the firft Place, and before all other Matters to
be confidered ; fo it hath been always, in all our
Undertakings, the prime and chiefeft of our In-
tentions and Defires, and, in all our Actions and
Sufferings, our greateft Comfort and Encourage-
ment ; and which being eftablifhed according to
the Covenant, we are very confident to give and
receive Satisfaction in all other Matters ; and
without which the Church and Kingdom of
Scotland having been, from the Corruption of
this Fountain, overwhelmed with a Deluge of
Miferies, although they had all Things befide,
cannot be fatisfied, nor think themfelves fecured.
And we confefs that it is to us, and to that Church
and Kingdom, no fmall Matter of Sorrow, that
after fo folemn a Covenant, and fo many Protef-
tations and Declarations, the Reformation of Re-
ligion {hould fo long ftick, and be fo much ob-
ftructed in this Kingdom ; which we hoped in
the Beginning, when both Kingdoms entered into
Covenant, {hould long before this Time not only
have been eftablifhed here, but propagated to
other Nations groaning under, or in Danger of,
the Yoke of Antichriftian Tyranny ; and which,
upon the appearing of the Light, and the new
Dawnings of the Day in this Ifland, were begin-
ning to lift up their Heads in Expectation of their
Deliverance and Comforts : We do therefore de-
fire, particularly and explicitely, to know the Ar-
ticles of Reformation and Uniformity of Church-
Government, contained under the general Pro-
po/itions j all of them, after much Debate, being
long fince offered by the Aflembly of Divines unto,
and a great Part of them refolved upon by, both
Houfes, which may alfo, in a ftiort Time, re-
folve upon the Remnant : By this Means we (hall
proceed the more diftinctly and afluredly ; and
thefe Articles, formed up in a Model, may be
confidered and granted by the King with the
clearer Knowledge ; which is very neceflary,
no^, only in other Propjfitions, which are framed

•68

An. 22 Car. I.
1646.

<Tbe Parliamentary HISTORY

as particularly as may be, but alfo and efpecially
in the Matter of Religion.
' This was the Courfe approved and obferved
at the Treaty of Uxbridge ; where fo much as
was at that Time prepared for fettling Religion,
was prefented. If we fhould, without the Know-
ledge of Particulars, reft upon the general Propo-
fition, Peace might be fettled without the fettling
of Religion ; except in fo far as, by the King's Con-
fent, the Power of Reformation is to be in the
Houfes, and Uniformity of Religion is placed in
the Parliaments of both Kingdoms ; which doth
not anfwer our Covenant^ binding both King-
doms to the Exercife of their Power, by their
Endeavours in the Particulars therein fpecified.
Nor will this General give Satisfaction to any of
the Reformed Churches, efpecially to the Church
of Scotland; nor will it be able to cure the prefent
Diftempers of Religion in the Church of England^
which call for a prefent Reformation ; nor iecure
them or us from altering of that which is already
ordained ; nor be any Recompence of the many
Labours and Sufferings, and the much Expence
of Blood and Treafure, in this Caufe.
' Having perufed the feveral Ordinances^ Direc-
tions, and Votes of the Honourable Houfes con-
cerning Church-Government delivered unto us,
which we conceive will be the Matter of the
Propo/itiom of Religion, and in this Senfe only
we fpeak to them ; we do agree to the Direc-
tion for the prefent Election of Elders, to the
Subordination of Congregational, Claffical, Pro-
vincial, and National Affemblies ; and to the
Direction concerning the Members of which
they are conftitute, and the Times of their Meet-
ing : Only we defire that no godly Minifter be
excluded from being a Member of the Claffica!
Prefbytery ; nor any godly Minifter, having law-
ful Commiffion, from being a Member of the
Provincial and National Aflemblies; there being
the greater Need of their Prefence and Affiftance
in fuch Aflemblies, in that there are no Ruling El-

* ders

of E N G L A N D. 369

ders to join with and affift them. And we defire An. 21 Car/L
that a fixed Time be appointed for the ordinary l646-
Meeting of the National Affemblyy with Power ' ^ "
to the Parliament to fummon them when they
pleafc, and with Liberty to the Church to meet:
oftener, if there mall be neceflary Caufe ; the
ordinary Meeting thereof being moft ne'cefTary
for preserving Truth and Unity in the. whole
Church, againft the Errors that may 'aHfe and'
multiply in the Church, and againft the DivifioW
and Differences that may diftradV-tbe inferior Af-'
femblies of the Church, and for. receiving and 'de-'
termirting Appeals from Provincial Aflemblfe's,
which otherwife will be infinite, and lye over
long without Determination ; an'd the Exigence*
of Religion fometimes being fuch, that it will
require an extraordinary Meeting^
' We agree to the Rules and Directions concern-
ing Sufpenfion from the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper, in Cafes of Ignorance and Scandal : On-'
ly we defire that the Congregatiqnal Elderfhips
may have Power to judge in Cafes of Scandal
not enumerated, with Liberty to the Perfons grie-'
ved to appeal, as in other Reformed Churches*'
This we conceive to be a Power no more arbi-
trary in this Church, than in them who are li-
mitted by the Rules exprefled in Scripture, and do
exercife this their Power with fuch Moderation,
as is a Comfort, Help, and Strengthening of Civil
Authority: The appointing of Provincial Com-
miflioners, fuch as are appointed in the Ordinance^
will minifter Occafion to fuch Debates and Dif-
putes in this and other Churches, as will be very
unpleafant to Parliaments and Civil Powers ; will
make a great Difconformity betwixt this and[
other Churches, and a prefent Rent and Divifion
in this Church ; is fuch a Mixture in Church-
Government as hath not been heard of in any1"
Church before this Timej may prove a Founda-
tion of a new Epifcopacy, or of a High Com-'
miflion ; and the Work may be better done by
the Aflemblies of Ministers and -Ruling Elders;
VOL. XIV. A a « who

370 The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. r* Car. I,< who have this in their Ecclefiaftical Charge, an&
l646 «. will be no lets tender of the Honour of Parlia-

April. ' ' menf> fy whofe Laws they live and are protect-
*• ed,, and as able and willing to give juft Satif-
4 fa&ion to the People, whole Conferences and
*" Converfation- are beft known unto them,, as any

* other Perfons whatsoever. Concerning the Suf-
*•- penfioit of the JVlinjfte/s themfelves, although
*• Scandal in them deferveth double Cenfure, yefc
*. we conceive it to be moft agreeable., that they

* have their Cenfure from the Claflical or other

* fijgerior Affcmblics of the Church, where there

* be Minifters to judge them. We do. alfo agree

* t<Xthe Ordinance for the Ordination of Minifters :
*- only we defire it rnay be. provided, Thax it ftand

* in Force for all Time to come.

* There be other Matters* contained in' the Or-

* dinances ; as, The Manner of Subordination of
'. the Aflemblies of the Church to the- Pai'lianjpnt,

* fg much fubje£t to Miftake \ the feeming Ex-
'. emption of fome Sorts of Perfons from, the juft
*• Cenfures of the Church ; the adminiftring^ the Sa-

* crament to fome Perfons againft the Confcienco

* of the Miniftry and Elderfhip.j coaceming pub-:
*' lie Repentance to be only before the i^lderfhips,

* and fuch like ; which may be taken into Con/i-
' deration, and, with fmajl 'Labour and Alteration,

* be determined to the. great Satisfa£tion of many,
^ As for the Remnant, concerning the perpetual Of-
« ficers of the Church, and their Offices; the Or-

* der and Power of Church-Aflemblies ; the Qr-
4 der of public Repentance, and of proceeding to
c Excommunication and Abfolution ; we defire

* they be agreed upon according to the Covenant +

* and the Advice of the Divines of both King-

* doms, long fince ofFered to both Houfes ; which

* being done, they may be prefently drawn in a
*• Method, and formed up in a Model of Church-

* Government in three Days ; to the Quieting the

* Minds of all the Godly concerning the parti-
' cular Meaning of both Kingdoms in the Matter

* of Religion, to the great Content of the Reform-

* ed

of E N G L A N D. 3?1

* ed Churches j and which will both make us dif- An. ^^ Car. I*
4 tinclly to know whut we demand, and the King l6*6-
c what he doth grant. l- '

As to the 1 8^ Proportion touching the Militia,
they fay, c We defire that the Militia mav be fo
firmly fettled, as neither the King nor- any ether
may be able to difturb or infringe the Peace now
to be agreed upon ; ami although it be our Judg*
ment, That the former Proportions (viz. thofe of
Uxbridge) are a more firm Security for con--
ferving the Peace, and a ftronger Bond of Uni-
ty betwixt the Kingdoms than the new, and
are therefore defirous the Houfes would be pleaf-
ed to fend the former ; which being granted by
his Majefty, we think the Militia perfectly fe-
cured, and that the War {hould not be continued
by infifting on the new Proportions ; yet, left
our Difagreement herein with the Houfes {hould
be a Hinderance to the fending of Proportion*,
that we may teftify how defirous we are, fo far as
in us lies, to give the Houfes Satisfaction ; :'.nd how
much we value the fpeedy fettling of the Peace of
thefe Kingdoms above our own Interrft, (provid-
ed that it be underftood to be without Prejudice
to the Right and Intereft of the Crowny which
we underftand to be conjoined with the rcfpe&ive'
Parliaments in the 'Militia of both Kingdoms,-
and not to be abfoiutely in the King himfelf ;
and that the King and his Pofterity be not totally
excluded, and rendered incapable to concur with
their Parliaments for protecting of their Subjects,
and oppofing the Enemies of the Kingdoms ;
and provided that it be without Prejudica to
the feveral Treaties between the Kingdoms) w«
do confent that the Power, Etfercife, and Manag-
ing of the Militia in c?.ch Kingdom, be fettled
in the Parliaments of either Kingdom r?Ypc£ti\v-»
ly, for fuch- a Time as ihall be mutually agreed
upon ; and, after the Expiration of that Term,
that the Militia be fettled and exercifsd in fuch
Manner, and by fuch Ways and Means, as (hall
bs -agreed uppa by, his Majefty and the Parlia*
A a a ' ment 3

Apnl.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

merits of either Kingdom refpecYively ; whereby
the Power of the Militia of England and Ireland,
which, by the former Propofetions'^ was in the
Commiffioners of both Kingdoms, will be in the
Houfes of Parliament ; the People will be fecur-
ed from all Apprehenfions of Dangers by reafori
of the late Troubles ; and the King, who is one
of the three Eftates of the Kingdom, will not be
for ever excluded from that juft Power and Inter-
eft in the Militia, by which he may concur with
the Parliament in Defence of the Kingdom/
And for this, in their Second Paper, they affigri
particular Reafons ; as,

i/?, * That, by the Fundamental Laws and

* conftarit Practice of the mod legal and beft re-

* gulated Kingdoms, and by the Laws and Practice'

* of thefe Kingdoms, declared to the World by

* the Honourable Houfes, the Power of War and

* the Militia is placed in the King arid Parliament;

* and fo acknowledged by all that write upon this

* Subject for Parliaments j which is directly con-

* trary to this new Proportion, by which the whole
' Power of the Militia is folely placed in the Houfes
' of Parliament, and the Crown excluded for ever.

idly, « Beeaufe in the Petitions, Meffages, and:
« Declarations fent to the King, emitted to the

* Kingdom and to all the World, we have pro-
' feflea, That no more was fought concerning the
c Militia, but that it might be intruded to fuch
' Perfons as the Parliament {hould nominate and

* approve, and might confide in, without Diminu-
« tion of the King's Authority or juft Power ; and
« made Profeflions to preferve and defend the King's
4 Perfon and Authority. That the World may beat'
< Witnefs with our Confciences of our Loyalty,

* and that we hav« no Thoughts or Intentions to
« diminifh his Majefty's juft Power and Greatnefs,

* was ufed as a fpecial Argument to perfuade Scot-

* land to join with England in this War ; and the

* fame is a Part of the third Article in our Cove-

* nant : And now to exclude the King and his Po-

* fterity for ever from the Militia will be under-

'ftood

of E N G L A N D. 373

* ftood to be an Alteration of the Fundamental An. 22 car. i.

* Government, contrary to the former Refolutions l6^

* and Declarations of both Kingdoms, and not A ^T
' agreeable to our Covenant.

3<#X, c Becaufe the fettling of the Militia, ao
' cording to the new Propofition^ may difable the

* Crown from ever performing that Duty which all

* Kings, by their Royal Office and Oath of Co-
« ronation, are bound to perform, and their Sub-
« jects, by their Oath of Allegiance, bound to af-

* fift ; for the Protection of their Subjefts and the
6 Laws, for oppofmg their Enemies, and keeping

* Friendihip and Correfpondence with their Allies.

4/A/y, * Becaufe hereby, in one Age or ano-

* ther, Differences may hence arife between the

* Kingdoms being feparated in their Militia; yea,
« in any one of the Kingdoms, the King's Pofte-
' rity reflecting on the Power of their PredecefTors,

* may be foon incited to endeavour, by new Stirs,
6 to regain it : Whereas the Power remaining in

* them, with the Advice of their Parliaments, may
' preferve the Kingdoms in Peace ; quo tequiorem^

* eo firmiorem, Pacem.

Laflly, ' The fending this Propofttion is like to
6 cut off all Hopes of Peace \ fince his Majefty, in
c feveral Declarations^ hath avowed, That albeit he
c were vanquijhed and made Prifoner3 he would quit

* both his Ejlate and his Life, 'before be would thus

* uncrown the Crown, and depof' his Pojlerity : And

* then let any Man judge if this be the fitteft Way

* for a fpeedy and durable Peace, which, in Truth,
' is the Sum of all our DcTires.'

Their Third Pr.bcr was only a Collection out of
feveral Declarations of the two Houfes, of Profef-
fions of their Refolutions for Uniformity of Reli-
gion, and ftating the Militia to be in the King and
Parliament conjunclly,

Their Fourth Paper was to prove, * That th,e
' Refult of the Committee of both Kingdoms at

* Edinburgh, Nov. 28, 1643, was ^.Tre.ity\ and
f the Ground of controverting thereof was, becaufe

374 ^lje Parlwnyntary H i s T o R v

An. *a Car. i. < in the ityb Proportion, now offered to them, it is
1646 w * propofed, That the two Houfes at Ifa/lminjte$
"J^J7 ' {hall have the Command of all the Forces in
' England and Irland: Whereas, by the Refult

* aforefaid, the S-csts Army in -Ireland was to be
' commanded by the Parliament of Scotland and

* fuch as they fhould appoint, To avoid which,

* the Parliament of England now difowned That;

* to be a formal Treaty between 'the two King-
' doms, but only a temporary Conceffion of the

* Committee : ;\nd the Scots infifted it was, and

* that it had all the necefTary Formalities and Cor-
' Xpborations of a Treaty.'

Befides thefe Exceptions to the Proportions
drawn by the two Houfes, the Scots Commi {lionets
alfo deli red an Addition of two more, relating to
the Advantage of their Nation, viz.

i. ' That in regard of the great Advantage,
which a Kingdom enjoyeth by the Royal Pre-
fence and ordinary Rehdence of their Sovereign
with them, and the great Lofs and Prejudice
which the other Kingdom cloth fuftain through
their Abfpnce, (by the King's not understanding
theDifpofition of the People, or Condition of their
? Affairs, but from the Information of others, be-

* fides many other Prejudices,) we do therefore
f earneftly dvfire the Confent of the Honourable
« 'Houfes for fending to his Majefty a Propofition^
f That the King and the Prince, and, after them,
« their Heirs and Succeffors, {hall, at leaft one Year

* in three, refide in Scotland^ where they may per-

* fonally difcharge that Duty they owe to the Sub^
' je£ts of that Kingdom* where Confcience cannot

* allow them to be always Non-refidents, nor the

* Wejfare of the Kingdom difpenfe with their

* conftant Abfence.

2. 4 Upon the like Caufes and Grounds, we de-
' fire the Honourable Houfes to concur with us in
« a Defire to his Majefty, That, in all Places of

* Truft and Offices about the King, Queen, and
' Prince,- and the reft of his Royal Children, the

* equal

of ENGLAND;

equal Half, or at leaft the Third Part, may be An
of the Scots Nation ; left, by Time, they become
Strangers each .urito other ; which muft needs
produce many Inconveniences. And this we
truft will not be interpreted as the cafting in of
any Let or Hinderance to retard the Proportions ;
fith the Honourable Houfes have given us fo good
Hopes of their Confent, without Debate, to fuch
Propositions as we conceive to be conducible for
the Good and Security o/ the Kingdom of Scot-
land.'

Although the Commons took -thefe laft Papers,
prefented by the Scots Commiffioners, into Confir
.deration from Time to Time, and there were long
pebates and frequent Diyifions upon them, yet
we find no Anfwer thereto in the journals. It is
•Very probable none was given ; for Mr. titties 9 who
Appears to have been .one of the Tellers in almoft
,every Queftion that was moved in favour of the
Scots, writes thus (») : ' Malice againft the Scots car-
ried them ;[the Independents^ to difcover a manifeft
Slighting and Negle&ing, and (that ,not fufficient-
ly provoking) a violent Injuring and Affronting of
them. Firft, they vouchfafenot to anfwer the Pa~
'pers they put into the Houfe, fome not at all, none
prefently (as formerly they were wont to do) nor in
any convenient Time; but make them wait Days,
.and Weeks, and Months, for a Return to what
{he Commifiloners prefent from the Kingdom of
Scotland, or from themfelves in the Name of that
Kingdom.

There is nothing elfe in the] Proceedings of the
reft of this Month memorable enough for our
Purpofe ; only that the Lords, having had no An-
Jiver to the Parliament's Letter fent to the Prince
'of Welles^ thought proper to make fome Inquiry-
after it : They therefore ordered that the Speaker
Should write a Letter to Sir Thomas Fairfax, to
of him whether he received fuch a Letter
A a 4 from

p. 53,

376 Vise Parliamentary HISTORY

Car. T. from the Houfes of Parliament, and when he fcnt
it to the Prince. A Day or two after this, thu
Lords were informed that Mr. Seymour lately
brought a Letter from the Prince, directed to both
Houfes of. Parliament; and, becaufe the Lords had
heard nothing of it, it was ordered that the laid
Mr. Seymour foould attend the Houfe, to give an
Account thereof. Accordingly Mr. SfywfW ap-*
peared and faid, That being fpnt by the Prince
with the Letter^ he was coming two Days 2go to
deliver it to 'the Lords, but their Houfe being up,
and the Houfe of Commons hearing of it, they fent
for him,, and. he delivered the Better to them.

The King leaves j^^- This Month begins with more Misfor-
i»; - 'tunes attenjjng the King and his Caufe. Many of
the chief Nobility of the Kingdom had now left
him, and. thrown themfelves upon the Mercy of the
Parliament ; fo that he had very few ileady Friends
or Coiirifdlors about him.

May 2. Col, Rein/borough informed the Lords,
That four Days ago there came into his Quarters,
.Jiear Oxford^ the Duke of Richmond and the Earl
of Lindfey^ v ith fome other Gentlemen, who
Were then at Wood/lock. Alfo that, by feveral In-
formations, he had heard the Kipg went out of
Oxford^ difguifed, on Monday the 2yth nit. and
only Mr. Afhburnham and Dr. Hudfon, a Minifter,
with him : That it was likely he would come to
forrie Place in or near London, and lie concealed
until he faw Occafion to difcover himfelf. -- *
But we {hall foon fee to how great Extremity di-
ftreffed Majefty was then driven.

The two laft mentioned Lords were ordered t^
be taken into Cuftody of the Black Rod, and con-
dufted, under Colonel Rain/borough's Guard, tq
Windfor-Cqfth) there to remain till the further Plea-»
Cure of the Houfe was knowjir

May 4. The following Letter from the Lord
one pf the Cowmiflioners in the Sects

Army

cf E N G L A N D. 377

Army before Newark* was read in the Houfe of An. zi Car. i.
Lord,:

T'j the Right Honourable the SPEAKER of the
Honfe of PEERS.

My Lords,

IHere inclofed fend your Lordfliips the Copies Letter5 &c. con-
of our fccond Summons and the Anfwer there- ceming' the Sur-
unto. We are to meet with the Scots Commif- rj"der °keNJ*"
fioners To-morrow in the Morning, at Balder- lament's Forces!
ton ; and (hall, from Time to Time, give your
Lordfhip an Account of our Proceedings. I am

fcncoh, Jpril 29, Your Lordjlnp's humble Servant,

E. MONTAGUE.

for the Governor of the Town and Garrifon of New-
ark, the Gentlemen there, and the Mayor, Alder-
men, and Byrgeffes of that Town*

* IT 7 £ hope you have confidered that our Pa~>
6 VY per, as you term it, contained a Summons

* from us, and what we receive from your merits
.* no Reply. We were in earneft, as to give an
« Account to God and Man of pur Proceedings,
« and to fhew that nothing from you can hinder

* our endeavouring that you may fee your approach-
' ing Ruin j and, whilft there is Time to avoid it,

* we once more demand of you, in the Name of

* both Houfes of the Parliament of England, and
f for the Ufe of the King and Parliament, that you
' forthwith deliver up the Town and Garrifcn of
4 Newark into their Hands; and we (hall give you

* Conditions for the Surrender thereof, which you

* muft not expecYto be fuch as you might formerly
c have obtained, Your now accepting of what is

* offered, will declare you arc fenfiLle of the total

* jLofs of your Eftates, the Devaluation of the

* Country round about you, of the Ruin of the
f Town, and of the Blood which may elfe be fpilt,

7 'We

37$ 7& Parliamentary HISTORY

An. a» Car. I. < We ihall expect yourpofitive Anfwer, To-mor-
»t--16.46-— -' ' row ky Three in the Afternoon, at Ealderton.
Way. Signed in the Name and by the Warrant of the

Committee of both Kingdoms.
C0ii;ngbam, Jfriiti, E. MONTAGUE.

»M' LOTHIAN.

TTbe ANSWER to the foregoing SUMMONS.

' TpHE Confederation of what is required in

* -»- your Summons of Monday laft being of fq

* high Concernment to his Majefty, and to the
' particular Interefts of very many of his faithful
' Subjects in this Garrifon, I conceive a fhorter
*• Time than Monday next will not be fufficient to
6 prepare Articles of fo divers Natures, as are ne-

* ceflary to be treated on ; at which Time I will

* not fail to fend fuch to you, and upon your Af-
« fent to them, furrender the Town : In the rneaij

* Time I here fend you the Names of fuch Gom-

* miflioners for the Nobility, Gentry, Soldiery,

* Clergy, and Townfmen, as I do intruft for the

* treating upon thofe Articles with an equal Num-

* ber of yours, whofe Names 1 (hall defire by the

* next, and that you will appoint fuch a Place a$

* you thlrik moft convenient for the Treaty \ and

* do further expecT:, that a Safe-Conduct be grant-
' ed, and Hoftages delivered, for the Security of

* the Commiflioners employed by me, viz. the

* Lord Lexington^ Mr. Ballafyfe, Sir Bryan Palmes^

* Sir Gervafe Nevill, Colonel D'Arcy^ Major-Ge-

* neral Eyre, Sir Simon Fanfoaw^ Sir Gamaliel Dud-
« Ay, Colonel G%, Colonel Atkins^ Dr. MarJJi

* Dean bf Yor'ky and Mr. Standijh, Alderman.'

1646. ]. BELLASYSE.

The fame Day the Co^mons fent UP to the
Lords the Letter from the Prince of Wales ^ which
mcnt's invita- was inclofed in one from the Lord Hopton, an4
both in another Letter from Sir"^»wj Fairfax j
all which v»-ere read as Follows :

TV

*f ENGLAND. 379

far the Honourable WILLIAM LENTHALL, Efo An' « £"• l'
SPEAKER of the Houfe of COMMONS. t V* '. ^r

Mr. Speaker, Ma>''

Hp H E inclofeJ is the Anfwer I received from
* Sally to the Letter you fent his Highnefs,
vvhofe own Anfwer to both Houfes are fent up
by Sir "Jofeph Seymour (o). \Vhat is deflred con-
cerning the Prince's Tutor, I leave wholly to
your Confideration, and reft

Your jnofl humble Servant,

THOMAS FAIRFAX,

Tor Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX, General.
SIR,

* T 1 1 S Highnefs received a Later from the
4 1 1 Speakers of both Houfes of Parliament by

* a Trampeter of yours, which he delivered with

* his own Hand, according as he faid his Order

* was. His Highnefs hath fent his Anfwer by this

* Oentl eman, Sir Jvfepb Seymour. I have here
1 no Trumpeter to fend with him, and muft there-

< fore ptay yoii to excufe that ForYn. His High •

* nefs defircs you would give this Gentleman his
« Pafs to -go to London with this Letter, and to re-
'* turn to him in the Ifle of Jerfey, His Highnefs

< likewife defires you will give your Pafs to his Tu-

* tor, the Bimop of Salt/bury, with his Family and

* Servants, to com« to him to Jerfey j and fo I
« reft,

Stify, April ijj Tour Servant,

J646- HOPTON.

To the LORDS and COMMONS aflembled in the
Parliament of England*

E have received your Mejfage of the 30^ of
March, the nth of this prefent, by which
you, being informed of our late Remove into this

IJland

(o) In the Journals this Gentleman is filled only Mr. Seymour ; for
the Parliament did not admit any Titles or Honours conferred by the
|{ ing after he left London in January 164.1.

380 *Ihe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. a* C.ir. I. IJland of Scilly, do invite its to come forthwith int9
' __^ your Quarters, and to refide in fuch Place, and with
fuch Council andfucb Attendants about us, as you, the
two Houfcs, Jhall think fit to appoint.

We have a great and earnejl Dejire to be amongft
you, if we might have any Jljfurunce that it would
prove an Expedient towards a blejjed Peace and the
Compofure of thefe miferable Diftrafiions ; and there-
fore, when we were compelled to depart from Corn-
wall, we chofe this poor IJland to refide in, where we
hoped we might have fecurely attended God's Plea-
fure, till we might have been made an Injlrument io-
^vards a happy Peace ; but the Scarcity of Provifions
being fuch in this Place, that we have not fmce- our
coming hither, which is now about fix Weeks, receiv-
ed one Days Visual, though we left Servants of our
own in our Duchy of Cornwall to take Care for our
necejfary Supply, we are again compelled to remove to
the IJland of Jerfey, whither we hope God Almighty
will dire ft us ; which Place we chofe the rather, as
well being Part of the Dominions of our Royal Fa-*
iher, (which as yet is evident to you we have no Pur-
pofe to quit) as being much nearer to you, and fo fitter
far Correfpondency ; and, therefore, that we may the
better receive Advice from you, with which we Jhall
always comply as far as with our Duty and Piety we
may, we dejire you to fend to us a Safe-Condufl for
the Lord Chapel to come to you, and to receive front
you fuch particular Proportions for our Welfare and
Subfi fiance as you think fit to make; and that he may
then attend our Royal Father, and return to us at
Jerfey ; and thereupon we hope, by the Bleffing of
Gody you will receive fuch Satisfaction as fna.ll teftify
the great Dejire we have, and Jhall always have, to
follow the Counfel aid Advice you Jhall give ; whish
will be an unfpeakable Comfort to us.

Given at our Court in the Ifle of Scilly, the I5th
of April, 1646,

CHARLES P.

After the Reading of this moving Lttter from
fhe Prince, the Lords immediately appointed *

Committee

of E N G L A N D. 381

Committee of five of that Houfe to draw up an An< 22 Car-

The laft Proceeding of this Day, worth Notice,
was the Lords Concurrence in a Vote fent up by
the Commons, ' That it be hereby declared by Orders ocafion-
the Lords and Commons in Parliament aflembled, S^J^j18'*
That what Perfon foever, who (hall harbour or himfeif from
conceal, or know of the harbouring or concealing, Oxford.
the King's Perfon, and ftiall not reveal it imme-
diately to the Speakers of both Houfes of Parlia-
ment, (hall be proceeded againft as a Traitor to
the Common-Wealth, forfeit his whole Eftate, and
die without Mercy.' -- Ordered alfo, at the fame
Time, ' That the Committee of the Militia of
London be defired to publifh this Order by Beat of
Drum, or Sound of Trumpet, in the Cities of
London and Weflminjler^ and the Lines of Com-
munication.'

The Houfes were not long in a State of Un-
certainty, in relation 'to the Place of the King's
Retreat: For

May 7. A Letter was read in the Houfe of Scv"al
Lords, from the JLord Montague^ with fome others ^ent* adrifing
inclofed, by which their Doubts, indeed, were that his Majefly
taken off, but their Fears were increafed, by his ™as s°J to *•
Majefty's fuddenand furprifmgRefolution of throw- °
inghinifelf into the Hands of the Scots Army then
before Newark j the Tenor of all which was as
follows : The firft Letter was thus directed,

For the Right Honourable the SPEAKER of thi
Houfe of PEEKS pro Tempore.

May it pleafe your Lord/hip?

* \T7 E were tf"8 Morning, about Ten of the
6 W Clock, credibly informed that the King,
c with three others, came in great Speed this Morn-

* ing, about Seven of the Clock, to Southwell, and

* went to the Houfe of Monfieur Montrcville, the
« French Agent,

« About

Parliamentary H I s T o n r

£ About Twelve this Day two of the Scots Coni-*
miflioners brought us a Letter, a Copy whereof
is here inclofed. The two Commiffioncrs pre-
fently returned, and, in this Surprife, we. could noty
at the prefent, think further than to ddire of them
that his Majeily might not remove, which they
approved of ; and that we might fpeedily meet
the reft of them at Farlngdon, which was con-
fented unto. We are now going thither accord-
ingly, and (hall immediately advertife your Lord-
{hips of our further Proceedings j and we befeecrr
to know the Pleafure of the Houfes, with all pof~

*- fible Speed, how we (hall direct and guide our-

* felves herein.

Yatir. Lordflrfs

fat, at the Lea- mofl humble Servant^

guer beftre Ncw-

& 'JjJ'* Cf E. MONTAGUE. .

WILL. PIEREP.OINT.

The Letter referred to in the foregoin-g was &?'
follows :

For the. Right tJdv. the CoMtaissiONfijis cf the
Parliament of England.

StiO/mtU, May 5, ] 646*
Right Honour 'obit ',

* *~fc:" H E DifchaigkigiOurfelyes of the Dufy we
' X qwe tg the Kuigd4Din.of England^ a«d un-
' to you as Commiflioners from the fame, moves

* us to aequaim- you of the King's coming into oar
' Army this Morning; which has overtaken us

* unexpe&edfy, filled us with Amazement, and

* made us like Men that dream. We cannot think
« that. he.fhould be fo.il! advifedinhis RefolutionsT

* as to have caft hjmfelf upon us without a, real

* Ij>tpr>tion to give full Saiisiaclion to both King-*
' donrx- m 41 their j lift and reafonable Demands, in
4 aJl tUuiw-Taiugs that concern. Religion and Rjgh-
' teoufncfs. Whatfoever be his Difpofition and Re-

. UJDS, you may be fure that we fhall never

of ENGLAND.

entertain any Thought, or correfpond with any An
Perfcn, nor countenance any Endeavours, that
may, in, any Circumftance, entrench upon the
League and 'Covenant, or weaken the Union or
Confidence betwixt the two Nations : That
Union was unto our Kingdom the. Matter of
many Prayers ; and as nothing was more joyful
to us than to have it feton Foot, fo hitherto 'we
have thought nothing too dear to maintain it ;
and we truft to walk with fuch Faithfulnefs and
Truth, in this Particular-, that as we have the
Teftimony of a good Cohfcience within ourfelves,
fa you, and all the World, fhall fee we mind
your Interefl with as much Integrity and Care as
our own, being confident you will entertain -no
other Thoughts of us*

Signed by Warrant and Command of the Commif-
ftqmrs. of the Parliament, of Scotland, by

LOTHIAN.

Next a Letter, from the Scott Commiffioners re-
dding in London^ was read :

for tht Right Honourable the SPEAKER, of the
Houfe of PEEKS pro Tempore.

My

* TTTAVING received no 'other AdvertifemenrY

* IT X neither from the Committee <?/ Elates

* with the Scots Army, nor by any other Way j

* but that we hear this Afternoon, that Letters, are

* come to the Honourable Houfes, giving Notice

* that the King is come to the Scots Army near
c Newark ; we have judged it incumbent on us to

* prefent to the Houfes, that, if his Majefty be gone

* thither, we are very confident that the Lord-

* General and Committee of that Army, from

* whom we expec-t to hear fpeedily, will do that

* which beft befeems their Places, and Truft to the

* Good of the Kingdoms, according to the Con-

5 * ditions

May.

The Parliamentary H i s T cl R y

ditions of the mutual Covenant and Treaty be*j
twixt the two Nations ; and we defire that, by
common Advice, the prefent Opportunity may
be improved for fettling of Religion and the Peace
of both Kingdoms} which, as it hath always
been, fo it is now, and (hall ever be, the earnefi
Defire and conftant Endeavours of

Worce/ler-lloufe,
May 6^1646.

Tour Lord/hip's
Very affeflionate Friendi

and humble Servants,

LOUDON.
LAUDERDALE.
A. JOHNSTON.

HEN. KENNEDY.
ROB*. BARCLAY.

The fame Day a Conference was held, by De-
fire of the Houfe of Commons, at which they pro-
duced fome Letters from their Commiffioners be-
fore Newark, exa&ly to the fame Tenor as the for-
mer; except a Letter from Majpr-Qeneral Pcintz^
who commanded the Englijh at the Siege, arid an
Abftradt of a French Letter , which we here fub-
join.

For the Honourable WILLIAM LENTHAL !,'£/£.
Speaker of the Houfe of Commons. >

S I R, May 5, 1646. \

I Sent you this Day Notice of a Relation of
the King's Coming to the Scots Quarters, the
Confirmation whereof I conceive to be a Bu-
flnefs of that Confequence, that I pofted away
my Secretary to aflure you that he is fafely fc-
cured at Kelham by the Scots.
* Our Procefs in the Treaty was in great For-
wardnefs, but we now rather expect his Majef-
ty's Commands for a Surrender than the Profe-
cution of a Parley ; however, in a few Days I
(hall be able to give you Satisfaction therein ; in
the mean time this, and the Bearer, with my

' humble

of E N G L A N D. 385

* humble. Service, I defire may be prefented to the An« ** Car. I;
' Houfe from

Your moft bumble Servant,

SIDENHAM POINTZ.

P. S. c The Bearer will give you our Condi-
' tion more perfectly, if you pleafe to com-
' mand it.'

Next was read a Letter fent from the Agent for
the Parliament of England at Paris.

MINUTE of a LETTER from Monfieur
from Paris, of ^ Xpft, 1646^

AT laft the Prince of Wales is at Jerfey.
The Queen his Mother doth fend Mr. __

Jermyn, his Brother Captain Ctck, and feme Agent at Pa, %
others, to fetch him hither* where he will
expect what will be the King his Father's Suc-
cefs.

' Monday laft the faid Queen received Intelli-
gence he would go out of Oxford, in fpite of his
Enemies, to join the Scots, as being agreed with
them. Many do flatter themfelves as if the faid
Prince would be fent into Scotland to raife Man-
trofe's Party again, becaufe the King could not
do it himfelf.'

The Commons likewife faid, at this Conference,
That, upon ferious Debate of the foregoing Let-
ters, they had palled two Votes, viz.

1. Ordered, by the and Commons in Par- The Cbmhioht
liament, * That it be defired of the Scots Commif- refolve to fend
fioners that were refident with their Army before !!lf K!ns *°
Newark, and alfo of their General there, that the

Perfon of the King might be difpofed of to fuch a
Place, within this Kingdom, as the two Houfes
of Parliament fhould appoint.

2. Ordered, ' That the Place to which the Per-
fon of the Kiiir* (hall be difpofed of, (hall be War-

VOL. XIV. B b wick

386 The Tarliamentary HISTORY

An. aa Car. I. w'ick Caftle.' But it being late, the Lords put ofF

^_ ; , the Confideration of thefe Votes till next Day. —

Way. Accordingly

May 8. We find that thefe tv/o Votes were very
warmly debated in the Houfe of Lords for a long
Time, and the Quettion being at laft pyt, Whe-
this Houfe agrees with the Houfe of Com-
mons in the firft Vote as it was brought up from
them ? it patted in the Negative. The following
Lords begged Leave, before the putting the Quef-
tion, to enter their Diflent, if it was carried againft
them.

DENBIGH. SALISBURY,

NORTHUMBERLAND. NOTTINGHAM.
PEMBROKE and MONT- SAY and SELE.

GOMERY. GREY.

KENT. HOWARD.

MIDDLESEX. WHARTON.

The fame Queftion being after put on the fe-
cond Vote, relating to the particular Place where
the King fhould be carried to, this alfo pafled in the
Negative. But the following Lords entered a Pro-
left, with their Reafons, againft this and the former
Vote : A Cuftom very rarely prac~lifed in the Houfe
of Lords at this Time.

Several Peers en-
ter their Froteft.

w

After reciting both the Votes, as before, they
added,

E, whofe Names are underwritten, hav-
ing, before the putting of the aforefaid
Queftion, demanded our Right of Proteftatiori,
if the Queftion was carried in the Negative, as
it was ; and finding, by Letters of the 6th Inftant,
from the Commiffioners of the Parliament of Eng-
land, near Newark, this Day read in the Houfe
of Peers, That ftrift Guards were kept by the
Scots Army about the Koufe where the King
then was, and none fuffered Accefs to his Perfon
without their PermiiHon, we conceive this to be
a Matter of fo high Concern, both to the Par-

* liament

cf ENGLAND. 387

liament and Kingdom, (That in fuch a Cafe the An- ** Car. I.
Houfcs of Parliament fhould not defire that the v__ _^
Perfon of the King of England may be difpofed May!"""
of to fuch a Place, within this Kingdom, as the
Houfes fhould appoint) That, to clear ourfelves
from the ill Confequences that may enfue there-
upon, we have thought fit to enter this our Diflent
and Proteftation againft it, which we do ac-
cordingly.

MIDDLESEX. NOTTINGHAM.

DENBIGH. KENT.

NORTHUMBERLAND. SALISBURY.

PEMBROKE and MONT- SAY and SELE.

GOMERY.

The Letters referred to in the foregoing Proteft
were read this Day in the Houfe of Lords, before
the Debate and putting the Qneftion. about the
Votes ; but, for the Sake of Connection, we have
placed that firft. Thefe contain an Account of the
Surrender of Newark, and the Articles on which
is was yielded up ; the firft of them we (hall -give as
it ftands in the Journals, but the latter, being rather
Military than Parliamentary, and publifhed in
Rufhwortb, is unneceflary here. Thus this gal-
lant Town, which had flood a long Siege againft Newark furren-
two powerful Armies, and at the fame Time had ?ered to 'he ^an*

i TV*-/- r • -n n-i • \-' r Lament by the

the Mifery of a raging Peltilence within it, was fur- King's Orders
rendered by the King's Command, when, in all
Probability, it might have held out much longer.

The two Letters bcforementioned came from the
Lord Montague, <3c. and were addrefTcd to the
Committee of both Kingdoms at Derby-Hbufe,

My Lords,

* \7rEfternighrj about fix of the Clock, we met

* JL with the Scots Commiflioners in the Mea-
4 dows betwixt Kelham and Faringdon ; and they

* told us the King was come to Kelhatn to Lieute-
' nant-Generzll David Lf/Iey's Quarters, and that

B b 2 ' they

'The Parliamentary HISTORY,

I.* they had been with him there ; but could not ac-
quaint us with their Refolutions till this Morning.
Strict Guards are kept on the Scots Side near
Kflham, and about the Houfe where the King
now is, and none fuffered to have Accefs to his
Perfon without their Permiflion : But for Mon-
ficur Morttrevtlle, in regard he is an Agent for the
French King, they cannot deny him to fpeak
with the King at his Pleafure ; but my Lord-
General and the Committee allure us, this Morn-
ing, they will be very careful that nothing (hall
be done to the Prejudice of the Intereft of either
Kingdom, and that they acquainted the Com-
mittee of Eftates in Scotland and your Lordfhips
with the King's Coming into their Quarters, and
intend to keep him in their Army till Advice
from them ; and further acquainted us, that the
King told them he would fignify to the Parlia-
ment what his Intentions were.
' We mail give your Lordfhips a further Ac-
' count from Time to Time.

fa/Jerton, May 6.
,646.

Tour Lord/hipt

Humble Servants,

E. MONTAGUE.
Wm. PIERKPOINT.
W». ARMYN.

EDW«J. ASCOUGH.
ANTH. IRBY.
THOS. HATCHER.

My

TH E Treaty for the Surrender of Newark
is this Night concluded, a Copy of the
Articles is here inclofed fent (a). We befeech
your Lordfhips we may receive your fpeedy Re-
folutions for difpofmg of the Scots Army, and
have your Lordfliips Affiftance to prevail upon
the Houfes, that fome Money may be fpeedily
fent to us for them j thefe Parts being exhaufted,
and very great Inconveniences will not clfe be
prevented,

« We
(») In Rujbivortb, Vcl. VJ. p. if 9.

of E N G L A N D. 389

* We humbly defire to 'know the Command of An- 22. Car. i.
the Houfes, or of your Lordfhips^ to their Forces

here, which will be readily obeyed ; and a good
Account, we are confident, will be given of them
wherefoever they go, for Fidelity, Courage, and
good Difcipline.

' We aflure ourfelves that the Houfes, who gave
the Glory to God, to whom all Praife is due, for
their former Succefs, will appoint a Day of
Thankfgiving for this his Blefling alfo.

*'*' MiS*' l646' Signed as before.]

After this the Earl of Manchefter reported a
Letter which had come from the Committee of
Scotland, refiding with the Army before Newark ;
the Purport of which was to aflure the Houfes
that the King, when he came into their Army, of-
fered the Town and Garrifon of Newark to be
furrendered into the Hands of the Scots and Eng-
lijh Commiflioners ; but that they made it their
Defire to the King, that it might be furrendered
into the Hands of the Parliament of England only,
for the better preferving the good Correfpondency
•between the two Kingdoms, and preventing of
Jealoufies. The Letter itfelf runs thus ;

Right Honourable,

TH E earneft Defire which we have to keep.^ Scots Com.
a right Underftanding between the two miflioners AC-
Kino-doms, moves us to acquaint you with that?0'"1,1 of his Ma'

n. T» -j L • u r jefty s coming

ftrange Providence wherewith we are now lur- lntg ^1, Army,
prifed, together with our Carriage and Defires
thereupon.

* The Kino; came into our Army Yefterday in
fo private a Way, that after we had made Search
for him, upon the Surmifes of fome Perfons who
pretended to know his P'ace, yet we could not
find him out in fundry Houfes, And we believe
yourLordfhips will think it was Matter of much
Aftonifhment to us, feeing we did not expedl

B b 3 'he

39O The Parliamentary HISTORY

Aa. zz Car. I. « he would have come into any Place under our
Power.

4 We conceived it not fit to enquire into the
Caufes that perfuaded him to come hither, but to
' endeavour that his being here mieht be improv-

* ed to the beft Advantage, for promoting the

* Work of Uniformity, for fettling of Religion
' and Righteoufnefs, and attaining of Peace accord -
' ing to the League and Covenant, and Treaty, by
5 the Advice of the Parliaments of both Kingdoms,
' or their Commiflioners authorifed for that Effect.

' Trufting to our Integrity, we do perfuade our-

' felves that none will fo far mifconftrue us, as

' that we intend to make Ufe of this feeming Ad-

' vantage for promoting any other Ends than are

' exprelfed in the Covenant, and have been hitherto

' purfued by us with no lefs Confcience than Care.

5 And yet, for further Satisfaction, we do ingenu-

' oufly declare, that there hath been no Treaty or

' Capitulation betwixt his Majefty and us, nor any

' in our Names ; and that we leave the Ways and

' Means of Peace unto the Power and Wifdom of

* the Parliaments of both Kingdoms : And fo far
4 as concerns us, as we have a Witnefs in Hea-
' ven, we are confident to make it appear to the

* W^orld, that there is nothing more in our Defires

* than, in all our Refolutions and Proceedings, to
' adhere to the Covenant and Treaty.

6 Our graveft Thoughts fhall be taken up in
' ftudying, and our utmoft Abilities employed in

* afting, thofe Things that may beft advance the
' Public Good and common Happinefs of both
' Kingdoms ; wherein, by the Help of the Moft
' High, we fhall labour toufe fomuch Tendernefs
' and Care, that we hope it fhall foon appear that

* our Actions have been the I flue and Refult of ho-
' neft and fingle Intentions.

' And, further, we cannot, in a Matter of fo-

* deep Confequence and common Intereft, but feek
' your Lordfhips Advice ; for which Effect we

* have alfo written to the Committee of Eftates of

* Scotland^ with Intentions to move, by your joint

{ Counfels

of ENGLAND. 39i

' Counfels and Refolutions, that we at laft, after An. az Car. I.

' a Seed-time of many Afflictions, may reap the

' fweet Fruits of Truth and Peace : And, in this

' Confidence, we remain

South-well, May 6.
1646-

Humble Servants,

LEVEN. R. FREEBAIRN.

BALCARRAS. W. GLENDINNING.

DUMFERMLINE. THO. CARR.

HUME. J. JOHNSTON.
LOTHIAN.

Next was read a Paper, to back the former,
from the Scots Commiffioners refiding in London j
which was to this Purport :

MayS, 1646.

TH E Letter from the Committee of Eftates
of the Kingdom of Scotland refiding with
the Scots Army, directed to the Commiffioners of
both Houfes, and their Letters to the Committee
of both Kingdoms, which we have received this
Morning, we are confident will give full Satisfac-
tion to the Honourable Houfes, that his Majefty's
coming into their Quarters was unexpected ; and
their perfuading of him to give his Surrender of
Newark unto the Committee of both Kingdoms
for the Ufe of the Parliament, will, no doubt,
be taken by the Houfes as a fufficient Teftimony
of their Fuithfulnefs, and Sincerity of their In-
tentions and Refolutions ; which, we are perfuad-
ed in our Hearts, are no other than they have
been from the Beginning of this Caufe, to the
profccuting whereof, according to the Covenant
and Treaty, they have, and ever will limit them-
felves in all Endeavours.

' The earneft Defire we have, according to our
Commiffion and the TruPc repofed in us, to pre-
vent all Mifunderftandings between thefe King-
doms, fo happily conjoined, and fo nearly tied

« by

392 7& Parliamentary HISTORY

za Car. I. < by the Solemn League and Covenant, hath inforced
16461 ' us to make known to the Honourable Houfes
what we hear commonly aeported concerning
5000 Horfe and Dragoons to have been Yefter-

* day as far as Banbury, upon their March towards
f Newark; notwkhftanding it is every where known
.' that Garrifon was upon a Treaty, and is now to

* be furrendered To-morrow to the Cqmmiflioners
' of the Parliament, and none of the Scots Forces
' to be placed therein ; which being confidered,
' and that there is no Force of the Enemy's in
' thofe Parts, we do earneftly defire th,at the Ho-

* nourable Houfes will be pleafed to flop their
,' March, and to prevent every thing which may.
c §*ve j11^ Caufe of Jealoufy, or any ways weaken

* the good Correfpondency, or leflen the Confir

* dence, that is between the Kingdoms.

' As the Committee of the Army have declared

* that they are free of all Capitulations or Treaties
.' with his Majefty, fo do we, for our Parts, de-

* clarethe fame to the Honourable Houfes and all
-' the World ; and that his Coming to that Army

* was ftrange and unexpected to us, whereof we
' never heay4 till the Betters came to the Houfes
' from their Commiflioners upon the 6th of this

* Iniiant : And we do folemnly proteft and affure,

* That it is our firm and conftant Refolution ne-
,c ver to fwerve in the jeaft from the Covenant and
.' Treaty, but to apply our Thoughts, by joint Ad-
' vice, to do every tiling w.hich may procure and
,' fettle an happy and well-grounded Peace.'

By Command of the CommlJJioners for the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

The Houfe of Lords, talcing thefe Papers into
Confederation, refolded. That the prefent Letters
from the CommifTioners of the Parliament, and
from the Comrhiflioners of the pftates of fatftland
refiuing with the Army before Newark, and the
Paper delivered in this Day by the Scots Commif-
fioners, be made known to Sir Thomas Fairfax;
' ' and

of E N G L A N D. 393

snd that it be fignified unto him, that this Houfe An. 22 Car. I.
thinks fit that he fhould not fend any Forces to t l646' t
Newark : And a MefTage was fent to the Houfe of ^7
Commons, to defire a Conference thereupon the
next Morning.

It was alfo ordered that thefe Lords following, The Lords re-
wz. the Earls of Northumberland, Denbigh, Man- ^£Z*%f£
chejler, and Lincoln, Lord Vifcount Say and Sele, band all his For-
with the Lords, Roberts, Wharton, and Willoughby ces.
of Parham, fhould confider of the drawing up of
a Letter to he fent to the King from both Houfes,
to propofe that all Garrifons may be flighted and
difmantled, and all Armies and Forces, both in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other Forces
whatfoever that have any Commiflion from the
King, may be fpeedily difbanded ; and that the Con-
fent of the Scots Commiflioners be defired therein.

But the foregoing Letters did not much allay the
Jealoufies which had long been, and ftill increaf-
ed, between the two Nations ; efpecially now that
the Scots had got the King into their own Hands,
and were ftrong enough to keep him there. As
one Inftance of the Englijh Sufpicions, the Scots
Commiflioners fent a Letter to the Houfe of Lords
this Day, May 9, complaining, * That a Gentle- Complaint from
man, employed by the other Commiflioners for the Scots Com-
Scotland, and having their Pafs to them in London, mjfd°""sjnthe;r
was ordered to go back into Scotland with their MefTenger being
Letters and Pafs ; but was flopped the Night be- flopped by the
fore by the Guards, or fome other Perfons, in OrGuards-
about London, their Letters opened and taken from
him, and himfelf kept up; which was an Injury
they could not have expected, but left it to the
Wifdom of the Houfes to confider how important
it was; and to take fuch Courfe for delivering their
Letters, and repairing of this unjufl Action, as
might be a Teftimony of A flection and Juftice to
their Servants,

LOUDON. CHAR. ERSKIXE.

LAUDERDALE. H. KENNEDY.

A. JOHNSTON. ROBERT BARCLAY.

The

394

Tie Parliamentary HISTORY

May.

/in, 22 Car. L The Lords ordered that a ftri<5t Examination
1646. ^ fhould be made what Officers were upon Guard the
lait Night, and who ftopper, and took the Letters,
and make a Report of it to t i:.t Houfe.

Two Days after, May 1 1 , the Lords met, and
a further Account was given to them of this Bu-
finefs, under the Hand of one Captain MaJ/ey, in
thefe Words :

Capt. Mafley's
Re.'<bns for fo

T Francis Maffey, one of the Captains of Col.
* Bradley * Regiment, having the Command
of the Guard at Shoreditcb, on Thurfday Night
laft, being the yth of this Inftant May, a Scots
Gentleman was ftaid at the Paflage about Nine
o'Clock at Night ; who being, as he faid, going
to the Scots Army, and {hewing no Pafs under
any Hand known to me, I caufed him to be ftaid
and fearched ; and rinding divers Letters about
him, which he told me he knew not from whom
he had them, upon which two of them were
opened, one by myfelf, and. the other by one of
the Guard, whom I know not ; and conceiving
the Matter of that Letter, which was not writ in
Characters, to be prejudicial to the Parliament
and Kingdom, as being a Means of having the
private Debates of the Houfe of Commons pub-
liflied, my Confcience told me that I ought not
to let pafs any fuch Letters without the Confent
and Knowledge of the Parliament, which caufed
me to flay the Perfon and Letters until the Morn-
ing ; at which Time I prefented them to the
Houfe of Commons, where the Letters are now
remaining, but the Perfon difcharged, which
was done upon Friday laft, being the 8th of this
Inftant May.'

FRANCIS MASSEY.

The Lords ordered a Copy of this Anfwer to be
fcnt to the Commiifioners of the Kingdom of 'Scot-
land, and that Capt. MaJJ'cy have Notice to attend
their Houfe on the Tuefday Morning next; and then

they

^/ENGLAND.

they would take this Bufmefs into further Confide- An

raton.

Next the Draught of a Letter to be fent to the
Prince, in Anfwer to that from his Highnefs, was
read : After Debate, the Queftion being put,
Whether this Letter {hall be fent to the Prince
without any Addition ? it was refolved in the Ne-
gative.

Then the Queftion being put, Whether it fhall
be referred to the Committee for drawing up of the
Letter to be fent to the Prince, to make an Addi-
tion to the faid Letter, concerning the King's Com-
ing into the Quarters of the Parliament, and con-
cerning Proportions which are preparing to be fent
to the King ? it paffed in the Affirmative.

The Commons had defired a Conference with
the Lords about difpofing of the Perfon of the King
as both Houfes fhould think fit, which was agreed
to j and the fame being over,

May 13. The Speaker of the Houfe of Lords A Conference
reported, That Mr. Lfo, at the Conference, faid,
* That the Houfe of Commons had taken the Votet
wherein they formerly defired our Concurrence,
and the Anfwer of the Lords, into their ferious Con-
iideration; and, upon Debate, had refolved to ad-
here to their Fates as formerly delivered in.

* That in the firft Place they obferve, That the
Anfwer of the Lords is a bare Negative, and no
Reafons offered to induce them to alter their Opi-
nions.

* Such a negative Anfwer they hold not to be
ufual in the Proceedings of Parliament, and they
conceived it very inconvenient ; for if one Houfe
may give any negative Anfwer, without any Rea-
fons offered, the other Jioufe may adhere without
any Reafons given for the fame ; and fo the Houfes
would have no clear Underftanding of the Grounds
of each ether's Resolutions.

<The

396 *The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2» Car. I. c The Reafons why the Houfe of Commons ad-
l646- here to their Vote^ are :

M*a ' That it is the undoubted Right of the Parlia-

ment of England^ that the Perfon of the King
fhould not be difpofed of whi'lft he is in this King-
dom, but by the Parliament of England.

' That the Houfe of Commons having thought
fit to make this Claim, and fo to propound it to
your Lordmips, if, upon your Lordmips Refufal
to concur with them, they fhould acquiefce, it
would hold forth to the World, that both Houfes
of Parliament have deferted their Intereft in the
King, and do not think fit to have him difpofed of,
by the Parliament, in any Place of this Kingdom.

' It is not honourable for the Parliament of Eng-
land to fuffer their King to be in the Scots Army
in this Kingdom, and not to demand their King.

* It is not fafe for the Parliament of England to
fufFer their King, whilft he maintains War againft
them, to continue in any Army within the King-
dom of England^ without the Confent of the Par-
liament of England, left his Perfonal Prefence may
have an ill Influence upon them.

' The Scots Army in this Kingdom is under the
Pay of the Parliament of England : And whatfo-
ever cometh into their Power within this King-
dom, wherein England hath an Intereft, ought to
be rendered up to the Parliament.

* Your Lordmips are concerned by a higher In-
tereft to make this Demand, which is by the So-
lemn League and Covenant ; this being fo great and
undoubted a Right belonging to the Parliament of
England. '

' And, upon thefe Reafons, they adhere to their
former Vote^ and defire your Lordmips Concur-
rence herein.'

Next Sir John Evelyn faid, ( Your Lordmips
h:ive heard ths Senfe of the Houfe of Commons,
how much thjy conceive themfelves concerned in
Honour to have this Vote to be pafled ; therefore
they hon? your Lordfliips will never depart from

bearing

of ENGLAND.

bearing your Part in fuch a Demand. They will A"
be very unwilling to be neceffitated to this without
your Lordfhips ; yet if your Lordfliips {hall not
think fit to agree with them, they {hall never fail
to do their Part in making this Demand, it being
a Thing wherein the Parliament and Kingdom are
fo much interefted.'

The Report being made, the Lords took into
Confideration whether thefe Words, now reported,
were the Words fpoken by Sir John Evelyn at this
Conference. The Words being read, the Quef-
tion was put, Whether thefe Words, or Words
to this Effect, were fpoken at the Conference by
Sir John Evelyn ? it was generally agreed to (p}.

Next the Queftion was put, Whether, by thefe
Words, it doth not appear to this Houfe, that the
Senfe of thefe Words are, That in cafe their Lord-
fhips do not agree with the Houfe of Commons,
that they will do it without them ? It was refolved
in the Affirmative, and ordered, That this Report
fhall be taken into further Confideration the next
Morning. Accordingly,

May 14. The Houfe of Lords went again upon The Lord* de-
the Bufmefs j and the Queftion being put, Whether J?and f Satufao
the Words, fpoken by Sir John Evelyn^ were againft Words"of°"!r
the Courfe and Proceedings of Parliament, and that John Evelyn
this Houfe doth expect Reparation for the fame ? therein,
it was refolved in the Affirmative ; and another
Conference was ordered to be held with the Com-
mons, about fome Words which fell from a Mem-
ber of theirs at the laft.

May 15. We meet with another RemonJJrance
from the Scots Commiflioners, about {topping of
their Meflenger by Capt. Maffey^ in which is a
much clearer Reprefentation of the State of the
Cafe than in the former;

frr

(/.) Upon the Report of this Matter in the Houfe of Commons, Sir
Jctn Evt'jft acknowledged that J.e fpoke ihe Words in <^ieitn..n.

For

The Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 22 Car. I.

1 546.

For the Right Hon. the SPEAKER of the Houfe of

PEERS pro Tempore.
My Lordt

\\7 E did formerly acquaint the Honourable
* * Houfes with a Report that was come to
our Ears, concerning the intercepting, at the
Guards of the City, a Gentleman employed from
the Committee of Eftates of the Kingdom of
Scot/and hither, and fent back again by us with
Letters to their Lordfhips, and the Committee
of Eftates at the Army ; but now, from more
certain Knowledge, we do further represent,
4 That on Thurfday laft, the yth of this Inftarit
May^ before eight at Night, after he had (hewed
a Pafs under our Hands, and offered to (hew ano-
ther Pafs, figned by the Right Honourable the
Committee of the Eftates of the Kingdom of
Scotland, he was flopped by one Captain MfiJ/ey
at Shoreditch ; and notwithftanding he told his
Letters were from us, Captain Maffey caufed
him to be fearched ; giving this Reafon for it,
That he could not be anfwerable if he did not
fee them ; and when he had looked upon the
Letters, he faid again he could not be anfwer-
able if he did not carry the Gentleman and Let-
ters back again ; which he did forthwith, and
brought him, as we are informed, to one Colonel
Wilforfs Houfe, and from thence to one Mr. EJl-
wicKS* where he retired himfelf for an Hour and
an half at leaft, and afterwards brought him to
the Star in Fleet-Jlrect^ where he was kept in a
clofe Room all the reft of that Night, attended
by two Soldiers ; the nc:;t Day he was brought
to Weflminjlcr^ where he was kept from Eight
in the Morning till Seven at Night; and all the
Time he could not have fo much Favour as to
fend a Porter, or write two Lines, to Worcejler-
Pfcufe,' or to any of his Acquaintance, though
he feveral Times earneftly requefted it.
' MOJL of our Letters have been returned unto
us undifclofcd ; but one Letter, directed to the

Lord

of E N G L A N D. 399

e Lord Balcarrasy a Member of the Right Ho- An. 21 Car. fc-

1 nourable the Committee of Eftates, was opened l6*6*

4 and is ftill detained (a] ; and, which is moftftrange, '

* and very unexpected to us, the Letter directed l
' on the Back To the Right Honourable the Com-

* mittee of EJlates^ was fent to us open ; and tha

* therein inclofed, which was a Copy of our Letter
' to the Committee of Eftates in the Army, and to

* which our Letter did particularly refer, is taken
« away and ftill kept from us.

c When we reflect upon the whole Story of this

* Bufmefs, we ftand amazed to confider of it, and

* what the Thoughts of Heart may be upon it in

* the Kingdom of Scotland; we being folemnly in-
' vited by the Houfes of Parliament to come and re-

* fide here, and fo many Promifes made to us by

* their Commiffioners of fair and kind Entertain-
c ment; (whereof we acknowledge, till of late, we

* have had good Experience) the Kingdom of Scot-
' land having fuffered fo much at home and abroad,
' by Sea and Land, to the vaft Expence of much
' Blood and Treafure, in this Caufe ; there being
' fo many folemn Foundations and mutual Con-
c fidence between the Kingdoms ; and we ourfelves

* having, to the utmoft of our Power, fince the
e firft Hour of our coming hither to this Day, en-

* deavoured a fair Correfpondency and right Un-

' derftanding

(a) This Letter was dated from Worcefler-Hottfe, May 7, 1646,
and figned by John Chiejley, Secretary to the Scots Commifiioncrs.
The next Day it was read in the Houfe of Commons j who, after
the reading thereof, ordered a Meflage to be fent to thofe Commif-
fioners, to defire them to fecure the Perfon of the faid John Cbiejley,
to anfwcr fuch Things as fhould be obje<£lcd arainft him of high
Conoernment. Amongft thefe tetters (fome of which were laid
afide without reading, and others read) was a Paper without Supcr-
fcription or Subfcription, and great Part of it in Characters or Cy-
phers. And a Motion being made for the Decyphcring thereof, it
was carried in the Negative, by 151 againft 118. Mr. Holies and
Sir Walter Earle Tellers for the former ; Sir Arthur Hcjltrig and Sir
John E-velyr. of Wilts, for the latter. Mr. Hoiks, in his Memoirs,
fpeaking of this Affair of feizing and opening the Scots Commiffioners
Letters, calls it ' The highcft Affront, the greateft Violation of the
' Public Faith, and the greateft Scandal to all Princes, States, and
1 even Societies of Men, SV.'

400

An. Z2 Car. I
1646.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

derftanding between the Nations, whereof the
Honourable Houfes have given us ample Tefti-
mony j we are exceedingly furprifed, when we
compare this with the former intercepting and
opening of our Letters, (often complained of at
the Committee of both Kingdoms, and not re-
drefled) and other Affronts done unto us, which
we forbear to mention at this Time.

* We need not tell the Honourable Houfes how
inviolable the Privileges and Freedom of Legates
and Comrniflioners, their Attendants and Mef-
fengers, are kept by all Nations, and what fad
Confequences have followed upon the Violation
of thofe Laws ; nor (hall we take upon us to de-
clare, but leave it to the Honourable Houfes to
confider, how far this doth entrench upon the Law
of Nations, and upon our own Security and Safe-
ty ; how prejudicial it is to the Ends for which
we were called hither, and how far it doth dif-
able us from doing any Service here to the King-
dom of Scotland^ whom we reprefent, if our In-
telligences and Advices to them, or their Inftruc-
tions and Directions to us, (hall be difcovered and
divulged to the World.

* And we do the more infift upon this Bufi-
nefs, in that another MefTenger, difpatched by us
fince, upon the eighth of this Inftant, having a
Pafs under our Hands, was fearched by fome of
Col. Poyntz and Col. Rater's Forces for Let-
ters : This, with other Grounds we have, gives
us Caufe to fufpedt that, our Refidence here be-
ing fo well known to all the Officers about Lon-
don^ and our PafTes never queftioned hitherto by
any of them, Capt. Maffey^ alone, durft never
have undertaken this Buiinefs to break open our
Letters, directed on the Back To the Committee
of Eflates in Scotland, without the Dire&ion,
Afiiftance, and In&igation of others.

c We do therefore, in the Name of the King-
dom of Scotland, defirc that a ftricl: Enquiry may
be had therein ; and not only Capt. Mafj'ey^ but
Col. J'J'"tlfon> Mr. Ejhcick, and all others who

&f ENGLAND. 401

can be difcovered to have had any Hand, or to be An. 22 Car. fc
anywife acceflary to the intercepting and break- t l646' t
ing up of our Letters, may be examined j that ^ ~~
Reparation may be made unto us, and the Fact
difclaimed and difcovered ; that we may receive
the Aflurance of the fafe Tranfport and Convey*
ance of our Letters for the future, and the Paf-
fage of our Meflengers to the Scots Army and the
Kingdom of Scotland, and back again, by Sea or
Land, without Interruption ; that all our Jealou-
fies and Fears of that Kind may be removed, and
that a right Underftanding and fair Correfpon-
dency may be ftill preferved between thefe King-
doms : All which we do earneftly defire and ex-
pect from the Wifdom of the Honourable Houfes,
* and remain

Tour ajfc&ionatt Friends and Servarttst

L O U D O N.

fPcrafter-Hottfe, £„ ERSKIN. A. JOHNSTON.

May 13, 1646. ^ KENNEDY. R. BARCLAY.

After reading this Remonftranct, the Lords or*
dered that Col. tMfoa, Capt. Majfa and Stephen
Ejlwick^ ftiould have Notice to attend thek Houf«
the next Morning. Accordingly,

May 1 6. On a further Examination into this m
Affair, Capt. Maffy was committed, by the Lords, tain Sv iT
Prifonerto the F/ett, during Pleafure, for opening committed to th$
the Letters of the Scots Commiffioncrs, and not ^J,by ^
obferving his Orders and Directions. The Lords
alfo appointed a Committee of their Moufe to in*
quire yet further into this Bufmefs ; but Capt. Muf- But difcharged bjf
J'ey was, fume few Days after, relcaied by Order of the Commons.

the Commons without Payment of Fees. Lord

%-MUs writes (Z»), The Reafon they allcdgedfor dif*
charging the Captain v/as, c That the Lords h,ad
broke their Privileges in iinprifoning one who was
Under E.xaminaiioii of their Committee (for th':y
Jjad alfo referred tfaBufifleis to a Committee:) But,

VOL, XJIV. C c in

(l>) Meeielrtf p, 56%

402 72tf Parliamentary tl I s T "6 R Y

/in. az Car. I.jft Truth, not to do the Kingdom of Scotland any*
l6*6- Right in punifhing the Offender, but to affront it
~ j^' the more in protecting him.' — His Lordfhip's Af-

feition will be fully juftified in the Sequel.

• May 19. The Lords, at a Conference between
the two Houfes, having charged Sir John Evelyn.
with the Words related before, the Commons, at
another Conference held this Day, urged the fol-
lowing Reafons in Vindication of their Member ;
ivhom they had voted guiltlefs of faying or doing
any thing but his Duty in this Affair.

The latter's Rea- In Anfwer to their Lordfhips, the Houfe of
ttarf Si^jthn Commons doth admit, i. « That Sir John Evelyn,
Evelyn. a 'Member of their Houfe, did fpeak thofe Words,

or Words to that Effect, in Difcharge of his
r.Du'ty, and of* what he had in Command from
this Houfe to deliver unto their Lordfhips at a
Conference on Wednefday laft: .But do not ad-
mit that the Subject of that Conference were thofe
two Votes recited by their Lordfhips at the Con-
ference,on Saturday laft, but only the former of
thofe two Vote's ; wherein the Houfe of Commons
defired their Lordfhips Concurrence, That th£
Commiffioners of the Parliament of Scotland1,
and the General of the Sects Army, fhould be
defired that the Perfon of the King might be dif-
pofed of to fuch a Place within this Kingdom as
the two Houfes of Parliament fhould appoint:
For which, at the fame Conference, they gave
divers Reafons to their Lordfhips.
2. ' That the Houfe of Commons is of Opi-
nion, that the Words fpoken by Sir John Eve-
lyn do not import that Senfe which their Lord-
fhips conceive they do ; and muft needs account
it a great Unhappinefs that at this Time, when
as (according to the Expreffions and Expectations
of our common Enemies) nothing in Appearance
can deftroy us but Differences amongft ourfelves,
that fuch Exceptions fhould be taken, and Re-
« parations 'expeded for Words, and thofe of a
' xioubtful Interpretation, which their Lordfhips

* only

.^ENGLAND. 403

only conceive to import a Senfe which, admitting An. tz Car.
they did import, they arc hot contrary to the '

Courfe and Proceedings of Parliament; and the
like have been ufed feveral Times this Parlia-
ment, without any Exceptions taken thereunto
by their Lordfhips : And the Houfc of Commons
hope that their Lordfhips did not intend by
their Inference upon thofe Words, even in the
Senfe they took the fame, Co to bind up this Houffe
to one Way of proceeding, as that, in no Cafe
whatfoever, tho' never fo extraordinary, though
never fo much importing the Honour and Inte-
reft of the Kingdom, the Commons of England
might not do their Duty for the Good and Safety
of the Kingdom in fuch a Way -as they may, if
they cannot do it in fuch a Way as they would
and moft defire.

3. * That which the Houfe of Commons have
defired your Lordfhips Concurrence in at this
Time, and which they have feconded with many
Reafons, whereunto they have received no J!n-
fwer, is, in their Opinion, fo undoubted a Right
of the Parliament and Kingdom of England, and
fo highly concerned! them in Honour and Inte-
reft, and fo much conduceth to the fpeedy fet-
ling of a happy and well-grounded Peace, fo
much defired by all, that they cannot think but
that their Lordfhips, upon the Confideration of
their Reafons, will join with them in this De-
mand ; and that they will not fuffer any BufineTs
by the bye, to divert or delay their Refolutiona
therein ; whereby the Practices and Expectations
of our Enemies will be difappointed, who might
juftly hope that there would be no Concurrence
between the Houfes in any thi'ng, if it fhcilld
not be in this, of fo undoubted Right, and of fo
great Importance to the Kingdom, that the P-er-
fbn of the King being in the Hands and Difpo-
fmg of an Army of another Nation within this
Kingdom, and in the Pay thereof, fhould be dif-
* pofed of to fuch a Place within this Kin^'joul as
C C 2 . « both

404 ST& Parliamentary HISTORY

An. ^1. Car. I. < both Houfes of the Parliament of England fhalt

* aPP°int-'

With thefe Reafons, we fuppofe, the Lords were
obliged to reft fatisfied, for we meet with no more
of this Bufmefs in the Journals of either Houfe.

About this Time it was that the Scots Army-
marched from Newark homewards, and carried
the King with them ; and they had brought his
Majefty as far as Newcaftle, before any public In-
telligence was given to the Parliament where he
was conveyed. However,

May 21. The Lords received a Letter from the
Earl of Lauderdah, one of the Scots Commiflion-
ers, to this Effect :

' That' for the preventing of all falfe Informa-

dication of their * tions, they thought fit to acquaint the Honour-
Proceedings, up^ < able Houfes with a Proclamation publifhed by his
coming too8'* ' Excellency the Earl of Leven at Durham : That
thoirArmy. ' his Majefty came into "Newcctjlle without any So-
' lemnity ; and that none of the Scots Nation arc
' admitted to come into that Garrifon, without a

* Warrant from the Committee of Eftates of that
' Kingdom ; nor none of this Nation, unlefs they
' have a Warrant from both Houfes of Parliament,
' their Commiflioner?, or the Magistrates of Neiv-

* cajlle : That the Committee of Eftates of the
' Kingdom of Scotland, rcfiding at Edinburgh,

* upon Notice of his Majefly's Coming to their
' Army, forthwith emitted a Proclamation, inhi-

* biting all his Subjects, of whatfoever Quality or
f Degree, to go out of the Kingdom without their
c Warrant, under the Pain of being purfued as
c Public Enemies, as will appear "by a Copy here
' inclofed. They had alfo ft-nt fome of their
' Number to affift the Committee of their Army

* with Directions, that they proceed with the joint
< Advice and Confent of the Ccirmifiloners of both

* Houfes, according to the Covenant and Treaty.

* But that they now eanuftly entreat his Majefty

* to

of ENGLAND; 405

to grant the joint Defines of both Kingdoms, An. 22 Car. r/
when they (hall be prefented unto him ; and, in
the mean time, that he grant no Titles of Honour,
Penfions, or Places, to any of the Subjects of
Scotland; and, in every thing elfe, to ftudy a
fair Correfpondency between the two Kingdoms.'
Dated from W "crcejler - Houfe, May 2O, and
figned Lauderdale.

Next follow Copies of all the Proclamations, &c.
mentioned in the above Letter ', which we (hall
omit, as not much to our Purpofe.

May 25. A Letter was read in the Houfe of
Lords, which came from the King himfelf, dated
the j8th of this Month from Newcajlle(a], where
he then was \ the Scots having, by a quick March,
conveyed him thither. From thence, therefore, hi>
Majefty addrefled himfelf to the Parliament in the
following Manner ;

Newcaftle, May 18, 1646.
CHARLES R.

T 7 1 $ Majefty having under flood from both bis Kis Majefty's

•*•* Haufes of Parliament, That it was not fafe ^va to^th^

for him to come to London (wbitber be bad propcj'ed -^J\t™*1

'to repair, if fo be might, by their Advice, todoivhat-

fiever may be be/I for the -Good and Peace of both

Kingdoms) until he foall firjl give his Conjent ty

fucb Propofitions as were to be preferred to him

from than ; and being certainly informed that the

Armies were marching fo fajl tip to Oxford, as

made that no f:t Place fir treating, did rcfihe to

withdraw b^njl'lf hither, only to feeure bis own

Perfon, and with no Intent: jn to continue ibis Jl'ar

any longer, or to make any I):r':f:-.r. bfti'cccn bis /:t s

Kingdoms; byt to give jacb (' •;::•. • ,v/;.vr.J;/ to bctb,

[and fo to prefcrve himfuif for the Ciood of both]

C c 3 as,

(a) In Roy/Ion's Edition cf the Kind's Works, p. co5, this Letter
It Oated /rom .Vo«//-w?//, and the Paltacc in thr Ramx Ch.^acler
within Crotchets is omitted. Mr. Rujlj^^-ai -,'i, VcL VI. p. *74» ««a*
taikninto the lame En or.

40 6 Tie Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 22 -Cir. T. <?;, f>y the B!,ffn:g cf. God, he might fee a happy and
rf*6- wdl-groundsd Peace, .thereby ti bring Prosperity to
Ma-. ' *^* %il*gd01tts* anfwerable to the lejl Times of his
Progenitors.

And fence the fettling cf Religion ought to le the
chiefejl Care of al} Councils, his Maj'Jly mojt ear-
iiejily and heartily recommends to his own Hiufes of
Parliament, ail the Ways and Means poffible for fpeedy
f.n*fbing .this pitvtts and neceffary Work ; and particu-
larly thai they lake the Advice of the Divines of both
Kingdoms, affembled, at XVeffininftcr.

Likewise concerning 'the Militia of England ; for
fecuring his People againft all Prcienftons of Danger,
his Ma jelly is p leafed to have it fettled as was offered
ai the Treaty of Uxbridge ; all the Perfons being to
Le named for that Truft by the two Houfes of the Par-
n\ent of England fir the Space of J even Years j andy
after the Expiration of that 2Vw, thai it be regu-
lated as fnall be agreed upim by his MajeJIy and his
two Houfes of Parliament.

And the like for the .Kingdom of Scotland.

Concerning the Wars in Ireland ; his Majejly will
. . ,t . do whatsoever is pejjible for him to give full Satif-

faffion therein.

And if tkcfe be not fatisfaftory, his Majejty thetf
dejires that all fuch of the rropofitions as are already
agreed upon by both Kingdoms^ may be fpeedily fent
unto him ; his Majejly being refolved to comply with
his Parliament in every Thing that foall be for the
Happincfs of his Subjefls, and for the removing of all
unhappy Differences^ which have produced fo many fad
£ffe£ts.

His Majcfly having made ihefe Offers, he will
neither quejl'ron the thankful Acceptation of them ;
ifor doth he doubt but that his two Kingdoms will be
careful to maintain him in his Honour, and in his
jujl and lawful Rights ; which is the only Way to
make a happy Compojure of thefe unnatural Divi-
fans : And likeiuije will think upon a folid Way of
conferving the Peace between the two Kingdoms for
"Time to come ; and will take a fpecdy Courfe for
idfing and quieting his (ffiifled Peof./i, by fatisfying

tit

cf ENGLAND. 407

the Public Debts, by dijlanding of all Armies, and An. 22 Car. f.
whatfoever foall be judged condudble to that End ; l6*6'
that fa all Hinderances being removed, he may return "~May!"~
to this Parliament with mutual Comfort,

P. S. His Majefty being dejirous to Jhun the fur-
ther Ejfufion of Blood, and to evidence his real In-
tentions to Peace, is willing that his Forces in and
about Oxford be dijbanded, and the Fortifications of
the City dismantled, they receiving honourable Condi"
tions ; which being granted to the 'Town and Forces
there, his Majefty will give the like Order to the reft
ef the Garrifons.

CHARLES R..

The following Letter, of the fame Date of the
former, from the King, dire6ted to Sir Thomas
Glemham, Governor of Oxford, was alfo read.

CHARLES R.

Trufty and Well-beloved, we greet you well,

jy E IN G defer ous to Jlop the further Effufion of And to Sir Tho-
•*-* Blood y our Subjefts, and yet refpefting the faith- mas Glemham
ful Services of all that are in our City of Oxford, f°rd^urre
which have full faithfully ferved and hazarded their
Lives for us, we have thought good to command you to
quit that City, and to difband the Forces under your
Command there, you receiving honourable Conditions
for you and them.

Given at Newcaftle the 1 8th of May 1646.

.

Next was read the King's Letter to the Parlia-
ment of Scotland.

CHARLES R.

Right trufty and well-beloved Coufins and Coun-
fellors, right trufty and right well-beloved Cou-
fins, trufty and well-beloved Counfellors, and
trufty and well-beloved, we greet you well.

AFTER fo long arid fad an Interruption of the Jn°tlicr to tj*
jrf . TT r /i i- t • 7 i Parliament oi

happy Under/tanning betwixt us and our good Scotland.

Subjecls of our Kingdoms of Scotland (which hath
C c 4 exceedingly

408 2fe Parliamentary HISTORY

An. *?. Car. I, exceedingly afflltted us) and left the fad Effefls iheri*
l6*6' of may have alienated the Jff eft ions of many of that
ITa 4 Kingdom from us; and prefering nothing to the Love
cf our Subjefts on which our Safety and Greatnefs moft
depends, and without which we propofe not to our-
(elves any Happinefs, we have thought Jit to labour to
difpo/ffjs them of all Prejudices, rather by Jhewing
them our prefent Refactions, than by remembering
them of our former Differences, having come hither
vjith a full and abfoluie Intention to give all juft Sa-
'tisfcffion to the joint Dcjires of both our Kingdoms ;
and with no Thought either to continue, this unnatural
War any longer, or to make a Diviftcn betwixt the
Kingdoms, but to comply with our Parliaments and
jhofe entrujled by them in every thing, for fettling of
Truth and Peace.

Your Commijjioners have offered to us divers Papers
in your Name, expreffing your loyal Intentions towards
us, for which we cannot but return you hearty Thanks^
and Jball jludy to apply ourf elves totally to the Counfelt
0nd jfdvices of cur Parliaments.

We have already fent a MefTage to the tvjo Hotifes
cf our Parliament of England, and yur Commif-
Jioners at London, which we hcpe will give Satif-
Jaftion.

We have llkcwife written to all fuc'h within our
Kingdom cf Scotland, as have any Cow.mtffion from
"us, to lay down A'rrhs, dlfhand fbe ir 'Fore es, and ren-
der their Garrifcns ; and have written to our Jf gents
and. Minijlers abroad, for recalling all 'Commifftons
iffued forth by cur Authority to any at Sea, againjl
any of our Subjects cf either Kingdom ; and have
fent Letters to the Governor of our City of Oxford,
to quit that Garrifcn upon hcncurab'e Conditions,
and difland our Forces then ; which being. granted- to
him, u-e have refolved prefently to give the like Order
to all our other Garrifons and Forces within ibis King-
dom.

And that the 'Truth of thefe our 'Royal Intentions
tray be mcuU known to all our gaod Subjefts cf Scot-
land, we dejire a Proclamation may be printed and
together with this Letter, at all convenient

Pkces,

ENGLAND. 409

s, hoping none will believe but that this is our An. «» Car. I.
voluntary and cordial Refolution, and proceeds from .

too other Grounds than our deep Senfe of the bleeding MaJ.t
Condition of our Kingdoms ; and that our real Inten-
tions are, with the Elejjing of God and bis favourable
jfjji/lance) to join with our Parliament in fettling Re-
ligion here in Purity (after the ddvice of the Divines
of both Kingdoms ajfembled at Weftminfter) and our
Subjefts of both Kingdoms in Freedom and Safety.

So expefiing your Counsels and Advices in every
'Thing wherein we Jhall be concerned) we bid you very
heartily Farewell.

From Newcajttet May 19, 1646.

A Letter from the Scots Commiflioners refidlng
in London, along with fome other Letters from
their Commifiioners in the North were alfo read (b}.

for the, Right Honourable the SPEAKER of the Scverai Letter*
Hcufe of PEERS pro Tern pore. To be commu- from the Sccu
nicated to both Hottfes of Parliament. £°32??

,_,..__ _ _ , , their Army, and

Right Honourable^ May 25, 1646. their Conduct to-

E are defired, by the Committee of Ef-
tates of the Kingdom of Scotland refiding
with the Scots Army, to communicate to the
Honourable Houfes the Letters and Papers here-
with prefented ; wherein it will appear how care-
ful they have been in exhorting his Majefty to
give Satisfaction to the joint Defires of both
Kingdoms, without meddling in any Proportions
of Peace. They have alfo renewed their Defires.
for Advice from hence, and do carneftly intreat
that Commiflioners maybe fent from both Houfes
to join with them, and to be Witneilcs of all
their Actions ; wherein they endeavour nothing
f more, than that they may be fuch as may give
* equal Satisfaction to "both the Kingdoms.

4 We

(f>) Some of the fallowing Papert are conifl from the LordsjMr-
•nah, and the refi are t,.ktn from a Patftli'it publi/hed by Or.k-r of
the Scots Commiflioneri. (London, printed for Levrtnce Ct<::fnmnt
June g, 1646-) 'None of them, excepting that relating to Mr. slf)~
iurnbautt Efcape, are in Rujhivsrtb*

w

An. « CJ»r. I.
1646.

*fbe Parliament aiy HISTORY

* We are further delired to acquaint their Lord-,
{hips with the Particulars of a Letter written by
Colonel Pyyntz, to Lieutenant-Geheral David
Leftey ; wherein he doth require, That if he had
any Forces about Ripon, he retire them to feme
other Place ; and if he had appointed any more
to come thither, that he recall his Orders ; all
which he acivifed him fpeedily to perform, as he
would evidence to the World, that the Intention
of the Coming of the Scots Army into this King-
dom was to purfue the common Enemy, and not
to be troublefome, or incroach upon their Friends.
' To this Lieutenant-General LeJIey returned
a civil Anfwer^ {hewing him, That his Com-
mands fhould be obeyed ; and accordingly' did
forthwith withdraw his Forces from thofe Parts,
being defirous, according to the Directions given
unto him, to avoid all Qccafions of Difference
and Conteft : Upon Confideration whereof, it is
their earneft Defire, That as Directions are gi-
ven by them to all the Officers of the Scots Army,
fo the Honourable Houfes would be pleafed to
give' Order to the Commanders of their Forces in
thofe Parts to forbear all provoking Exnreflions,
Speeches, or Actions, which may give juit Caufe
of Offence.

' And for preventing all Diforders and Inconve-
niences, they do earneftly intreat, That Direc-
tions may be fpeedily fent to the Committee at
York, to appoint them Quarters, that a confider-
able Supply of Money may be fent to them now,
after fo much Want and fo long Suffering : Which
Defires being fo reafonable and fo oft en renewed,
we are perfuaded the Honourable Houfes will take
them into their ferious Confideration, and return
a fpeedy and fatisfa&ory Anfwer. We remain
Your Lord/hip* s affeflionate

Friends and bumble Servants,
L AUD^RD AL E.

A. JOHNSTON. CHARLES ERSKINE,

H. KENNEDY. ROBERT BARCLAY.

Jnclofed

"*/- E N G L AN D. 4tl

' Tnclofcd in the foregoing Letter was a Paper , An. 22 Car. .1,
intituled, The true State of the Proceedings of the. l6*6-
(ZammitlM of the. Ejlates of Scotland, refuting ivitb
/,iv;r Arm\y cmcern'mg Mr. John Amburnham, £3V.

May 25, 1646.

HP HE Ccinniittee of Eftates with the Scots-
*• •*• Army having, received a /"W of the Ho-
4 nourable Houfe of Commons, inclofed in a Letter
4 from the Commiffioners of both Houfes, de-
4 manding the Perfons of Mr. John Afliburnham^
4 and. all others that came with the King into the
4 Scots Army before Newark, to be delivered up,
'. did ferioufly take into Deliberation how they
'- might return a fatisfadlory Anfwer to the Defirc
4 of the Houfe of Commons ; wherein they found

* themfelves preiled with no fmall DifEculties arif-
^ ing from the Confideration of the Vote^ which,
*- did require Mr. "John Ajhburnbam and others to
4 be delivered up as Delinquents, upon this Nar-

* rative and Reafon, That they came into the Scots
4 Anny before Newark with his Majefly^ there be-
' ing no other Caufe of Delinquency made known
' unto the Committee of Eftates ; and no more
4 being expreiled concerning Mr. ^fohn AJhburn-.

* bam, than other Perfons who' were Guides to hi*

* Majefty in his Way thither.

4 It appears unto them that they were no more

* obliged to deliver up Mr. John AJhburnham^ his

* Majefty's ordinary Servant, and others, only for
f their attending the King to the Scots Army, than
4 the Parliament of England fhould have been
f obliged, in the like Cafe, to deliver up any Sub-

* jecl: of Scotland for attending his Majefty if he

* had gone into Sir Thomas Fairfax's Army, or
4 come to London. And it did very much weigh

* with their Lordihips, that the delivering up of
' thefe Perfons, meerly for their coming with his

* Majefty into the Scots Army, would import, That
' they did acknowledge it to be unlawful for thcm->

* Jflves to receive his Majcjly, earning unexpectedly^
f v)ithout any fyvijatifn intz their Army^ fince hg

' could

412 7& Parliamentary H i s T o R V

, 2a Car. I. < could not comQ without one Servant or other to
T6+6' attend him : But if Mr. John AJhburnbam^ or

^ ,t any other that came with his Majefty, had been

declared by the Parliament to be Incendiaries,
Malignants, or evil Inftruments, by hindering
the Reformation of Religion, dividing the King
from his People, or one of the Kingdoms from
another, or making any Factions or Parties
among the People, contrary to the Solemn League
and Covenant ; then it was their Refolution, and
they were ready therein to give Satisfaction to
the Honourable Houfes.

c Upon thefe and other Grounds they did defire
to confer with the Commiffioners of both Houfes,
to the end they might either give or receive Sa-
tisfaction ; and accordingly wrote unto them for
this Purpofe, leaving unto them to appoint the
Place of meeting : It was alfo confidered what
fhould be done in the Interim, till, upon Confe-
rence and mutual Confutation with the Com-
miffioners of Parliament, the Matter ihould be
determined : And though for the Coming of thefe
Perfons with the King to the Scots Army, (no
other Caufe of Offence being known, or Crime
objected againft them) the Committee of Eftates
could not, in Honour and Juftice, nor without
Reflection upon .themfelves for receiving his Ma-
jefty, put a .Reftraint upon them ; yet left the
JBufmefs fhould be divulged, and upon Apprehen-
fion of the Iflue thereof any of them fhould make
an Efcape, the Committee thought fit, and did
4 accordingly injoin Secrecy in the whole Matter.
4 While they were expecting an Anjwer from

* the Commiffioners of both Houfes, they received
' Advertifement that 5000 Horfe end Dragoons
c were upon their March Northward towards them,

* no Enemy being in thofe Parts; and that two

* 'Meflengers fent from us to them were intercept-
' ed and fearched : Whereupon they judged it ne-
' cefTary, and did write to the Commifconers of

* Parliament, to delay the intended Meeting till

* the Army fhould come to a more convenient

* Place i

of E N G L A N D. 413

Place ; being unwilling that the Forces of the two An, ** Car. l<
Kingdoms ihould engage upon a Miftake ; and l646'
fo foon as they came to Boroughbridge^ they re- May
newed their Delires to the Commiflioners of Par-
liament for a Conference about this Bufinefs ; td
which the Commiflioners, by reafon of their other
Occafions, did not agree.

' In all which the Committee of Eftates conceive
that they have ufed their beft Endeavours to give
Satisfaction to the Defire of the Honourable Houfe
of Commons ; efpecially feeing, upon the very
firft Notice they had of Mr. JJhburnharrfs and
Mr. Hudfon's Endeavour to efcape, they fent
forth, on all Hands, Orders to apprehend them ;
and fuch Diligence was ufed as Mr. Hudfon
was apprehended, and is now in Newcaftk, in
the Cuftody of the Deputy-Mayor : And as a
worthy and noble Lord, the Lord Balcarras9
lately come hither, hath, by Order of the Com-
mittee, made known unto us, his Lordfliip and all
the reft of that Honourable Committee can de-
clare upon their Honour, That, directly, nor indi-
rectly, they were no ways accefTary to Mr. AJk-
burnham's Efcape, nor had any Knowledge there-
of, whatfoever may be fuggefted to the contrary.
All which being confidered, together with the
Letters and Papers to be prefented this Day to
the Houfe from the Committee of both King-
doms, we are confident that Honourable Houie

* will reft fatisfied with their Carriage in this Par-
' ticular, and with their other Proceedings.'

Another Letter was read, addreffcd to the
Speaker of the Houfe of Peers, from the Scots
Commiflioners at Neivcajlle. ; in which .were in-
clofed Copies of feveral Papers delivered by -them
to the King.

NeiccaJik.'May 19, 1646.

Right Honourable,

* "O Y our laft to you, of the 6th of ''Jtifay, we
•* 13 gave your Lordlhips an Account of the

* Manner oi" his Majefty's Coming into our Army,

4i4

An. 32 Car. l'i
1646

The Parliamentary H Jf s r <9 R y

and did crave your Advice what was fo.be don*
for the Public Good and mutual Happinefs of both
Kingdoms ; and though as yet we have had no
Anfwer returned, we efteem it incumbent upon
us, in Purfuance of the Ends contained in the
Solemn League and Covenant, which have beeir,
and ever fhall be, the Scope of our Intentions,
to give" your Lordftiips a further Account of what
is parted betwixt his Majefly and us, that you
may know the true Pofture of Affairs here.
' \Ve did acquaint the Committee of Eiiates at
Edinburgh with the King's unexpected Coming
to us, who did fend up fome of their Members to
affift us in our Defires to his Majefty. All our
Labours and Endeavours have been, that he
would have been pleafed to fend fuch a fatisfa£tory
Mefiage to the Parliament of England, and our
Commiflioners at London, as might be a happy
Entrance to the fettling of Religion and a well-
grounded Peace; and, for this Effect, thofe who
were intrufted by the Committee of Eftates, by
our Advice, gave in feveral Papers to his Ma-
jefty, reprefenting the Refolutions of the King-
dom of Scotland ; whereof we have fent to GUI'
Commiflioners juft Copies, who will (hew the
fame to your Lordfhips, and give you a further
Account of all that is parted.
* We earneftly defire that the Parliament of
England may be pleafed to fend fome Commvf-
fioners from them to be Witnefles of our Actions,
and to give us Concurrence and Afliftance of
what may fall in our Way here ; and, in the
mean Time, that the Parliament will caufe to
make timely Provifions for our Army, from Lon-
don, and give Orders for their Quarters in fuch
Places as may be moft convenient for their Army.'
Signed by the Warrant and at the Command of
the Commijfloners for the Parliament of Scot-
land.

LOTHIAN:

The

fc/

E N G L A N D.

415

\

The Papers referred to in the foregoing Letter. An. aa Car. I.
Nnucajlle, May 1.3, 1646. t l6*8; ,
May it pleafe your Majefty, May>

HP H E Committee of Efbtes of your Majefty's Re^n^a,,^
•*• native Kingdom of Scotland, hearing of your prefented by
Repair to the Army before Newark, have com- .t!iem to h's M**
manded us to attend your Majefty here at Neuf-^l^*^
cajile, and reprefent to your Majefty the conftant
AfFeclion that our Kingdom ever had, and yet
doth bear, unto your Majefty, notwithftanding
that their Proceedings have been mifreprefented
to you, and mifunderftdod by you. Though
they never had any Thoughts but fuch as might
tend to the Advancement of the true Proteftant
Religion, the Preferring of your Majefty's juft:

* Power and Greatnefsj and the Freedom and Li-
' bertyof your Subjects, with a happy Union and

* Underftanding between the Kingdoms under

* your Majefty's Government, as is exprefTed in

* our Solemn League and Covenant.

' And now feeing your Majefty has thought fit to

* come unto our Forces here in England, we hope
•* you come with Intentions and full Refolutions to
.* give all full Satisfaction to the joint Defires of both
c your Kingdoms, for fettling of Truth and Peace ;

* and if your Majefty comes with thefe real Inten-

* tions, you may be confident that, next to the
Glory of God, and the Prefervation of our Oaths
in the Covenant and Treaties with our Brethren of
England, from which, with God's Afliftance, we
will not fwerve, nothing (hall be more dear to
them than to preferve your Majefty and your
Pofterity in their juft Power and Greatnefs.'

CALLENDER. BALMERINO.
LANERK. A. HEPBURNE.

Newcaftle, May 14, 1646. '
May it pleafe your Majejiy,

6 -IT AHER2AS your Majefly, in the Clore of
' W your Dif'ourf", d manded that only thofe
« Servants, whom your Maj -.Ay ftKHild - natefe,
5 * might

^i 6 22* Parliamentary H I s T o R Y

An. 12 Car. 1. « might have Liberty to attend your Majefty, ahcf
1646. tjiat yOU wouid beferved by none others ; what

we did in appointing Servants to wait on your
Majefty j was done out of our earneft Defire to
have your Majefty well ferved, in Abfence of your
Majefty's other faithful and unfufpe6led Servants J
and {hall be very willing that your Majefty Qiould
name any to wait upon you, who have not been
in actual Service againft your Majefty's King-
doms of Scotland and England^ or have appeared
as Enemies to either of them/

Newcdjik) May 15, 1646*
May it pkafe your M&jefty^

HAVING, at our firft Audience* reprefented
our Hopes and Confidence that your Ma-*
jefty came into the Army with real Intention and
full Resolution to fettle Truth and Peace in your
Majefty's Kingdoms, we (hall again renew our
Defires that your Majefty would be pleafed fpee-
dily to go about the readieft Ways and Means to
effectuate the fame, as well in England as in
Scotland^ which your Subjects do expert, ftom.
you, and exceedingly long for ; and if your Ma-
jefty (hall delay the prefent performing thereof,
we will be neceflitated, for our own Exonera*
tion, to acquaint the Committee of both King-
doms at London, that a Courfe may be taken, by
a joint Advice of both Kingdoms^ for attaining
the juft Ends exprefled in the Solemn League an'd
Covenant*

« We are further commanded to prefent to your
Majefty, hew ufeful we conceive it would be for
your Service, that your Majefty would be pleafed
to reftrain yourfelf frow conferring Titles of Ho"
nour, beftowing Places about your Perfon, grant-
ing Pennons, or any Manner of Gifts whatfo-
•evcr, to any of ypur Subjects of Scotland, fof
feme Time.'

The Lords, after rea^in^ all the forego^gf Pa*
ordered that Jjhey. ft^ould be cynnnu^ic;

the

of ENGLAND.

the Houfe of Commons at a Conference; and one
was deiired to be held prefently. In the mean
Time their Lordihips took into Consideration what
was to be faid to the Commons at this Conference,
in relation to the King's laft Meffage and the other All which are or-
Affairs; and, at laft, agreed, that the Senfe of J^Jf c°
the Houfe, which was to be delivered at the next Commons.
Conference, was this : ' That the Lords conceive
thefe Letters of the King to be of higher Concern-
ment to this Kindom, and to bring greater Satif-
faclion, than any Offers or Overtures of Peace for-
merly made by his Majefty, becaufe it difcovers a
greater Change in his Majefty's Thoughts and O-
pinions of the Proceedings of his Parliaments of
both Kingdoms ; which lays a fure Foundation for
our future Hopes of recovering a happy Peace to
rhde three Kingdoms, which have long lain un-
der this bloody and unnatural War. their Lord-
ill ips know that the aflured Enjoyment of this
Peace muft be the King's afting according to his
own Profe&ofi, which cannot be till the Propofi-
fiom be fent to him from both Kingdoms ; there-
fore defire not to omit (b fair an Opportunity, but
that thev may, with all poffible Speed, perfect the
Propefitions intended to be fent to the King by the
two Kingdoms of England and Scotland.

1 That the Members of both Houfes, that are of
the Committee of both Kingdoms, do communi-
cate the King's Letter to the Scots Commiflioners,
to let them know the good Refentment that the
Houfes have of the Care and Expreflions the Ef-
tates of the Kingdom of Scotland have made, of
purfuing the timeous and good Underftanding of
the two Kingdoms, according to the League and
Covenant ; and to affure thorn again, that the two
Houfes will take Care to preferve the fame accord-
ing to the Covenant and Treaty ; to defire that
there may fome Courfe be thought of, how the
King's Commands to Sir Tlwmas Glemham, con-
cerning the Surrender of Oxford^ may be fent to
Sir Thomas Fairfax, and by him to Sir Thomas
Glembam ; and to let them know that their Lord-
VOL. XIV. D d {hips

The Parliamentary HISTORY

fhips think fit, that a Committee of nine-'Lords be
appointed to meet a proportionable Number of the
Houfe of Commons, to confider of honourable
Conditions to be offered to the City of Oxford, (for
the fparing of the (bedding of innocent Blood) and
to be fcnt to Sir Thomas Glemham for the Surrender
thereof, and to report the fame to this Houfe (0).

* That their Lordfhips think it fit that a Letter
be written by the Houfes to the Eftates of Scotland,
to Bxprefs how well the Houfes take their declar-
ing their Affections to the Union of both King-
dcms, and to defi re their Concurrence herein ; and
that it be referred to the Lords and Commons, that
are of the Committee of both Kingdoms, to prepare
a Letter, and offer the fame to both Houfes.'

.

- May 26. This Day a Remonftrance and Petition
from the City of London was prefented to the Lords
by Alderman Foot, a famous Orator of the City's
at that Time, and who had often appeared before
them on the like Occafion. He was accompanied
now by divers other Aldermen, and many Common
Council Men ; and fince this Remonftrance is an
Abftraft of the full Hiftory of thefe Times, as to
Religion and Politics, and is not printed in Rujh-
"ivortk, we fhall infert it, without making any fur-
ther Apology for the Length of it.

To the Right Honourable the LORDS ajfimbled in
the High Court of Parliament.

A Petition from ^* BUMBLE REMONSTRANCE rfK*/ PETITION of
the City of Lon- the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the
don to the Lords cjty Of London, in Common Council affembled.

for iuppreuing ~

!tentrST"good ' f~\ U R Dut7> in the firft PIace> doth Iead US
ConeYpondence "* \Jr to begin all our AddrefTes, as we moft
with the s«ou. < heartily and humbly do thefe, with all due and

' humble

'(a] The Commons deferrsd the Consideration of this Propofal fcr
• fome.pays, and on the zgth of this Mon»h refufed their Concur-
rence ; on a Divifion, 145 againft 103. The Tellers for concur,
ring Vith the Lords, Sir J»bn Upland and Sir mih'am Livih j
agiiiift it, Sir John Evelyn and Sir Anbw HaJilriKe.

^ENGLAND. 419

' humble Acknowledgment of the great Labours An. 22 Car. r;

* and Endeavours which your Lordfliips have,
4 thefe many Years, employed in Reformation of
4 the Church and Common-Wealth, and in the
4 Prefervation of both, with the humble Tender of
c our conftant Devotion to ferve the Parliament,
' according to our Covenant made before Almighty
1 God.

'In the next Place we do mod humbly crave

* Pardon, altho' we do prefume again to return unto

* your Lordfliips ; ^nd humbly, yet plainly, lay open

* the Sorrows and Fears of our Hearts, even in this
' Seafon when God hath blefied your Armies with

* the greareft SucceHes, and that Man might per-
' fuade himfelf that the War is almoft at an End :

c For, firft, when we remember that it hath

' been long fmce declared to be far from any Pur-

.' pofc or Defire to let loofe the Golden Reins of

' Difcipline and Government in the Church, or to

' leave private Perfons or particular Congregations

* to take up what Form of Divine Service they
' pleafe ; when we look upon what both Houfes
f have refolved againft Brownifm and Anabaptijm^
1 properly fo called ; when we meditate upon our
1 Proteftation and Covenant; and, laftly, when we
' perufe the Direffory^ and other Ordinances for

* Prejbyterial Government ; and yet find private

* and feparate Congregations daily erected in divers
' Parts of the City and elfewhere, and commonly
4 frequented ; and Anabaptlfm^ Sroivnifm^ and
1 almoft all Manner of Schifms, Herefies, and
' Blafphemies boldly vented and maintained, by
' fuch as, to the Point of Church-Government,

* profefs themfelves to be Independent, we cannot
' but be aftoniftied at the S warms of Sectaries

* which difcover themfelves every where j who

* if, by their Endeavours, they ftiould get into
« Places of Profit and Truft in Martial and Civil

* Affairs, it might tend much to the Difturbance
. ' of the Public Peace, both of. the Church and

4 Common- Wealth.

D d 2 « We

The Parliamentary HISTORY

« We alfo cannot but call to Mind what Vows
« We have made to God in the fame Covenant, as well
' as our former Probations to preferve the Rights

* and Privileges of the Parliament, and the Liber-
« ties of the Kingdoms, and to preferve and defend

* the King's Majefty's Perfon and Authority in

* the Prefervation and Defence of the true Reli-
' gion and Liberties of the Kingdoms ; that the

* World may bear Witnefs with our Confciences

* of our Loyalty, and that we have no Thoughts

* or Intentions to diminim'his Majefty'sjuft Power

* and Greatnefs ; and do reft in the Afiurance we

* have received in the many former Declarations of
*' both Houfes concerning their Intentions towards
' his Majefty, his Royal Pofterity, and the Peace of

* this Kingdom ; which we doubt not but your
c Lordftips will purfue with all fpeedy Difpatch of

* Proportions to his Majefty, now whilft God doth.

* fo mercifully and miraculoufly go along with our

* Armies in all the Parts of the Kingdom.

* We may not, in the next Place, forget our

* Brethren of Scotland ; how, nYft, they were in-

* vited to engage with this Kingdom in God's

* Caufe, when yet they were at Peace at home ;

* in what Covenant this Nation is mutually linked

* with them ; at what Time, in relation both to the

* weak Condition of our Forces then, and the Sea-

* fon of the Year, they adventured upon an Ene-
r my warmly lodged, and well armed and prepar-

* ed 5 what they have fince fufFered for this Caufe
•* in their own Kingdom j how fuccefsful ever

* fmce God hath made our Forces in fupprefling
' the Common Enemies of both Nations ; and;
< what prefent Hopes we have of a well fettled

* Peace while we continue in this mutual Amity ;
' and then cannot but lament the many Jealoufies

* which the Enemies of our Peace, tJnion, and
4 good Government do now ftrive to beget betwixt

* both Nations ; and we tremble at 'the fad Effects

* thereof, if not timely prevented by the Wifclofn
c of the Parliaments of both Kingdoms.

'We

of ENGLAND.

* We cannot alfo omit humbly to reprefent unto An
your Lordfliips Confideration, how many Citi-
zens have already fuffered, and how many more
will be undone, if your Lordfliips (hall ftill make
ufe of that ancient Privilege to protect yourfelves,
the Affiftants of this Honourable Houfe, and the
Servants of both, and others, from being pro-
ceeded againft in any Courfe of Law for Debt ;
which now, becaufe this Parliament hath already
fat fo long, and is likely, by reafon of the
Unfettlednefs of Affairs, to fit much longer,
would efpecially require fome Expedient for Re-
lief of fo many as, otherwife, muft daily fuffer
under this Privilege.

' And now that the Kingdom is almoft reduced,
by which Means the Revenues of the Kingdom
will be unburthened, and the Cuftoms and Ex-
cife increafe, and the Public Charge of the King-
dom decreafe ; now that Delinquents do daily
come in and compound ; and now that the Enemy
have but few Holds left, we hope that the great and
extraordinary Taxes and Burthens on this City,
and their Trade, {hall be, for the future, abated ;
that the Debts owing to the City and Citizens
of London^ either by particular Aflurances of Par-
liament, or upon the Public Faith of the King-
dom, be taken Care for and difcharged, as well
as thofe affigned upon the Excife ; and may not
be diverted from the Ufes appointed by former
Afts and Qrdinancfs.
' And we humbly crave Leave to prefent, to the
' Confideration of this Honourable Houfe, the

* Committee of Haberdajker* s Hall, as being one

* of the greateft Grievances of this City j and

* which, fo long as it is continued, doth hinder

* the Concourfe of People thereunto, and tendcth
•* much to the Deftruftion of the Trade and Inha-
•* bitants thereof.

' And now alfo we doubt not but God will give

*• the Parliament fome better Means and Oppor-

« tunities of Relief of our bleeding Brethren in Ire-

D d 3 « land,

422 *Ihe Parliamentary HISTORY

land, and the fupprefling of thofe horrid Rebels,
and reducing of that Kingdom; wherein, befides
the public and common Intereft, we are particu-
larly concerned.

' Laftly, We fhould have much to fay for this
' City, if we could imagine that its Fidelity, and

* conftant Services and Devotion to the Parlia-

* ment, could either be queftioned or forgotten ;
' that little we {hall exprefs on the Part of the
' City is, not to repeat how zealous we have been
' in the Caufe of God and this Parliament ; how
c we have fpilt our Blood, and fpent and laid out
' ourfelves and our Eftates in Maintenance there -

* of ; how many public Acknowledgments we have
' by us of the favourable Acceptances of them, and
4 Promifes to leave Teftimonies thereof to all fu-
' ture Ages ; but only to befeech your Lordfhips
' to confider how much our Hearts may juftly be
' dejected, now that God hath followed your En-
' deavours and our Prayers with fo many Succefies,
c and brought the War to a probable Period, as to
' the Senfe of Man ; that the Enemies of our Peace
' ftiould ftrive now to fow Jealoufies between the
' Parliament and this City, as hath been too evi-
' dent of late; and, particularly, mould fo far pre-
' vail, as to be able to render the chief Magiftrate
' of this City, the Lord Mayor, fufpe£ted ; unto

* whom we cannot but give this juft Teftimony,

* that he, in his Place, hath faithfully behaved
' himfelf, and carefully difcharged his Office (b}.

' We could add much more of the daily Invec-
c tives againft us from the Pulpit, and other Places,

* where the Boutefeus of thefe Sectaries are admit-

* ted ; the fcurrilous and feditious Pamphlets daily

* broached in and againft the City ; and the great
« Contempt of, and Difcouragement to, the Mi-

* nifters of the Gofpcl, who adhere to the Prefly-

* terial Government : But we (hall conclude with
' this brief and humble Reprefentation of ourPeti-
' tions and Defires to your Lordfhips, in the Name

* of the whole City :

i. < That

(A) Alderman

of E N G L A N D; 423

1. 4 That lome fpeedy and ftrict Courfe may be An, ^^ Car. h

* taken for the fuppreffing all private and feparate l6*6'
4 Congregations. T£y!

2. 4 That all Anabaptifts, Brownifts, Schifma-
4 ticks, Hereticks, Blafphemers, and all fuch Sec-

* taries as conform not to the public Difcipline
4 eftablifhed, or to be eftablifhed, by Parliament,
4 may be fully declared againft; and ibme effectual
4 Courfe fettled for proceeding againft fuch Per-
4 fons.

3. 4 That as we are all Subjects of one King-
4 dom, fo all may be equally required to yield
4 Obedience unto the Government fet forth, or to
4 be fet forth, by the Parliament.

4. 4 That no Perfon difaffected to the Prejby-
4 ter'ial Government, fet forth, or to be fet forth,
i by Parliament, may be employed in any Place of
' public Truft.

5. 4 That your Lordfhips would pleafe tohaften

* Proportions to his Majefty for fettling a fafe and
4 well-grounded Peace amongft us, after fo long
4 and unnatural a War.

6. 4 That your Lordfhips, according to the Co-

* venant and Treaties^ will pleafe to ftudy all Means

* to preferve the Union betwixt the two Nations
4 of England and Scotland, and to remove all Jea-
4 loufies which may endanger our mutual Agree-
4 ment.

7. 4 That your Lordfhips would pleafe to con-
' fider of fome Means, whereby the Privileges
4 which the Members of this Honourable Houfe
4 and their Affiftants, and the Servants of both,
6 and others, enjoy, by being protected and ex-
4 empted from being proceeded againft for their
' Debts, may be fo qualified, as that the Subject
4 may be able to recover his own in fome due

* Time.

8. ' That all public Revenues and Receipts
4 may be employed for public Ufes, that fo the
4 Taxes of the City may be abated.

9. 4 That the Eitates and Compofitionsof De-
4 linquents may, according to the Engagement*

D d 4 4 by

tfhe Parliamentary HISTORY

by Ordinance of Parliament, be applied to dif-
charge the great Sums owing to this City and
' Citizens.

10. ' That the Plymouth Duty may be taken

* off" the Trade, efpecially now 'that the Weft is
' reduced.

11. 'That the Committee at Haberdajhers-
' Hall may be prefently dillblved, or at leaft fo li-
' mited and regulated, as that the City may have

* no Caufe of Complaint.

12. ' That the reducing the Kingdom of Ire-
' land may be taken into Consideration, before the

* good Party there be too far wafted and difcou-

* raged.

13. * That the Lord Mayor of this City may be
c fully vindicated.

14. * And laftly, and above all, That your Lord-

* mips will pleafe not to look upon any Expref-
' fions of this our Remonjlrance and Petition, as

* charging any thing upon your Lordfhips, or as
' intended to intrench upon any Privilege of this
' Honourable Houfe ; but favourably to accept

* thereof, and fo to interpret the fame as, from a

* fmgle and humble Heart, it is fmcerely (without
' any bye Ends, or to comply with any Party what-

* foever) intended and breathed forth from the fad
' Hearts of the Petitioners, who are o? erwhelmed
' with many Fears on all Sides ; and who call God,
' the Searcher of all Hearts, to witnefs that, ac-
' cording to their Covenant and Duty, their Zeal,

* Devotion, and Obedience is as fervent and pro-

* ftrate as ever to ferve the Parliament with their
' Lives and Eftates, againft all the Enemies of our
4 Peace, and to conjoin the City more and more

* to the Parliament, and to maintain the Union of
' both Nations againft all Oppofers whatfoever.

* All which we humbly fubmit unto the Wifdorr*
< of this Honourable Houfe.'

MITCHELL.

. After prefenting the foregoing Petition^ Mr.
foot faid he was commanded by the Lord Mayor,

4 Aldermen,

of ENGLAND. 425

Aldermen, and Common Council-Men of thcA
City of London, to acquaint the Houfe with a Copy
of a Letter that the King lent lately to the Lord
Mayor j and itbeinor opened only Yefterday, they
think it fit to prefent the fame to the Knowledge of
their Lordlhips j which Letter was read :

For our Right Trufty and Well-beloved the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council-Men
of our Cily of London.

Newcajlle, May 19, 1646.

CHARLES R.

Right Trufty and Well-beloved, we greet you

well.

irjAVING exprejjed our Refolutions to the two
<** Houfes of our Parliament of England, and the £0n£
Committee of EJtates of our Parliament of Scotland, that city
to give all jujl Satisfaction to the joint Dtferes of
bjth Kingdoms, we have likewife now thought fit to
affure the two chief Cities of both our Kingd:ms, that
nothing is more grievous to us than the Troubles and
Diftraclions of our People ; and that nothing on Earth
is more defer ed by us, than that, in Religion and
Peace, with aH the comfortable Fruits of both, they
may henceforth live under us in all Godlinefs and Ho-
nejiy ; and this ProfeJJion we make for no other £nd,
but that vou may know immediately from ourfeliies our
Integrity and full Resolution to comply with our Par-
liaments in every Thing for fettling Truth and Peace,
and our Defer e to have all Things fpecdily concluded
which Jhall be found requifite for that End; that our
Return to that cur ancient City may be to the Satisfac-
tion of our Parliament, the Good-liking of you and all
our good People, and to cur own treat Joy and Con-
fort. We bid you heartily farewell.

The Company being withdrawn, the Lords ap-
pointed the Earls of Nortlmmberland, EJfcx, Man-
shejler and Lincoln, Vjfcount Say and Sele, with the
Lords Roberts and U-^ilhughby, to confider what
Anfwer ihoakl be returned to the Lord Mayor and

Common

426 <fhf Parliamentary HISTORY

An. 2a Car. I. Common Council upon this Remonjirance and Pe-
1646. titlon ', and to prefent the fame to the Houfe.
' Then their Lordfhips adjourned during Pleafure,

and the Committee withdrew. The Houfe being
refumed, the Earl of Manchefter reported what the
Committee had drawn up in Anfwer to the Re-
monjirance and Petition of the City ; which was
read ; and, after Debate, it was put to the Qiief-
tion, Whether the Paper now read fhould be de-
livered as the Senfe of this Houfe now at the Bar,
to the Perfons that brought the Petition and Re-
monjlrance from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common Council-Men of the City of London ?
• and it was refolved in the Affirmative.

A Memorandum is entered in the Journals, that
the following Lords, before the putting of the
Queftion, defired Leave of the Houfe to enter their
Diffent and Proteftation, if this Queftion fhould
be carried againft their Vote\ which was granted,
and they figned accordingly.
NORTHUMBERLAND. KENT.

PEMBROKE and MONTGOMERY. WHARTON.
SAY^W^SELE. GREY.

DENBIGH. HOWARD.

SALISBURY. MONTAGUE.

The Aldermen and Common Council being
called in, the Speaker read the following Paper to
them in bac Verba :

An Anfwer of * *T" H E Lords are very fenfible of the great Fi-
Thanks from ' i delity and conftant Services of the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
' City of London to this prefent Parliament, which
' they (hall never forget. They acknowledge their
' Zeal, exprefled upon all Occafions, in the Caufe
' of God and this Parliament ; and how readily
' they have fpilt their Blood, and fpent and laid

* out themfelves and their Eftates in the Mainte-

* nance thereof : They are very well fatisfied with

* your Expreffions and Care to fettle the true Re-

* formed Proteftant Religion according to the Co-

of ENGLAND. 427

: venant, and with your Defires to have all He- An. 22 Car. I.
' refy, Schifm, and Blafphemies fupprefled ; as l646'
c alfo with your Refpeil to preferve the Rights and

* Privileges of Parliament, the Liberties of the

* Kingdoms, and to preferve and defend his Ma-

* jefty's Perfon and Authority in the Prefervation
' of the true Religion and Liberties of the King-

* doms, his Royal Pofterity and the Peace of the
' Kingdoms ; as alfo for your Defires for the Con-
' tinuance of that Union between us and our Bre-

* thren of Scotland, of whofe Services and Suffer-

* ings we fhall not only hold a grateful Memory,

* but, upon all Occafions, give a Retaliation :
e Unto all which we hold ourfelves, equally with
' you, obliged by our Solemn League and Covenant.

' As to the Perfon of the Lord Mayor, the Lords

* hold a high Efteem of him, according to his Me-

* rit, and have commanded me to let you know,

* that nothing hath puffed this Houfe, at any Time,

* in prejudice of him ; and when the Particulars,
4 wherein he finds himfelf aggrieved, fhall be made
4 known unto them, they fhall be ready, in a Par-
6 liamentary Way, to do him Right.

' The Lords will take the other Particulars of

* your Petition into ferious and fpeedy Confidera-

* tion ; and have commanded me to give you hear-
4 ty Thanks for the real Teftimonies of Duty and
' good Affections, which not only by your Words
' but by your Actions you have conftantly mani-

* fefted unto them.'

Then it was refohed. That this Remvnflrance
and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common Council of the City of London fhall be printed,
printed and publifhed, and likewife the foregoing
Ar.fiver of this Houfe to the fame. But upon this
Queftion's being carried, the following Lords en-
tered their Difient and Proteftation againft it.
NORTHUMBERLAND. HOWARD.

PEMBROKE and MONTGOMERY. MONTAGUE.
GREY. WHARTON.

DENBIGH. KENT.

SAY and SELE. . SALISBURY.

Although

7 'be Parliamentary HISTORY

!• Although this Petition was fo well received by
the Lords, yet, as Mr. Pt/bitlockeobferves(c'), many
in the Houfe of Commons exprefled great Offence
at it when it came before them, that the City ftiould
The faid Petition take upon them to prefcribe to the Parliament what
very coldly re- ^gy were to do : And as it was looked upon to
c7mdmobn, be wholly a Defign of the Prtjbyterian Party, it

was not liked, and received but this cold Anfwer
to it, 4 That it would be taken into Confideration
e when Time (hall be convenient/ And

It appears from the Journals, that even this An-
fwer was not obtained without great Oppofition ;
the Numbers on the previous Queftion being 148
againft 113; and, on the main Queftion, 151
againft 108.

General Ludlow(d) calls this Petition an infolent
Addrefs from the Mayor and Common Council of
the City of London: And the Anfwer of the Com-
mons he ftiles a pofitive Declaration, that they re-
folved to preferve their Authority entire to them-
felves ; for that there was a Party in the Houfe of
the fame Temper with the Addreflers, who ear-
neftly endeavoured to break the Army as the prin-
cipal Obftacle to their Defigns, &V.

Nothing elfe occurring worth our Notice, we
fliall end the Tranfactions of this Month with
another Letter from the Scots Commiflioners refid-
ing in London, concerning Want of Pay for their
Army :

For the Honourable WILLIAM LENTHALL, £fq.
SPEAKER of the Houfe of COMMONS.

SIR, May 30, 164.6.

F the fending Supplies to the Scots Army, and
the giving Order for their Quarters, were a
Matter of fmall Confequence, or could, without
very great Prejudice, fuffer a Delay, we would
be very loath fo frequently to trouble the Ho-

< nourable
(0 Mmoriah, p. »i». (d) Mtnyirs, V«U. p. l?9» iS°«

-A Remonftrance
from the Scots
Commiffioners
refiding in Lon-
don, of the Want
of Pay for their

I

of E N G L A N D. 429

nourable Houfes about that Particular : But An. 12, Car. I.
when we confider the exceeding great Wants of *646'
that Army, and the infupportable Burthen that
lies upon the Counties where they do now refide,
by reafon no Monies are paid to the Army, where-
with they may difcharge their Quarters ; (from
whence many dangerous Inconveniences and fad
Evils muft needs follow, as may appear by the
Letters from the Committee at York, if not very
fpeedily prevented) we do find a Neceflity laid
upon us ftill to importune the Honourable Houfes
for fending a confiderable Supply of Money to
that Army ; and in the mean Time to give Or-
der for their Quarters, that all Differences which
may arife between them and the Country, or the
Parliament's Forces, may be avoided, and all
fair Correfpondence may be mutually cheriftied
and entertained.

* Thefe Things we have earneftly preffed at the
Committee of both Kingdoms, and do now again
renew to both Houfes for our further Exonera-
tion ; wherein, as we have ufed our beft Endea-
vours to prevent the Evils that are like to enfue, fo
we cannot but promife to ourfelves, that the Ho-
nourable Houfes will take the fame into their wife
Coniideration, and fpeedily return a fatisfactory
Anfwer to

Tour affeftiznate Friend* and Servants,

LAUDERDALE.

A. JOHNSTON*. CHARLES ERSKINE,

H. KENNEDY. ROBERT BARCLAY.

June. The Beginning of tbis Month was alrnofl:
wholly taken up by both Houfes, in debating the
feveral Pr&pofetions for Peace j which were not
yet finiftied, notwithitanding they had been fo
many Months about them. But the Particulars
of all thefe, being very long, we {hall poftpone till
they were all connected and framed together, in
order to their being prefemed to the King.

In

i646.

— >/ —
June.

429 The Parliamentary H I s T a R Y

An. zz Car. I. In the mean Time the Scots Commiflioners, re-
nding in London, loft no Opportunity of prefent-
ing the Wants of their Army to the Parliament ;
and renewed their Complaints in the following
Letters, which they inclofed in a Cover addrefled to
the Speaker of the Houfe of Lords pro Tempore,
dated, from Worcejler-Houfe^ "June 4, i 646.

But firft a Letter from the Committee of Ef-
tates at Newcajilc to the Commiflioners refiding in
London :

Another on the
fame Subjetf,
from thofe at

Kcwcaale.

Right Honourable,

THERE being nothing more in our Defires
than to preferve a right Underftanding, and
prevent every thing that may tend to the Weaken-
ing of the happy Union between the Nations,
we have thought it neceflary again to mew your
Lordffiips that our Army is exceedingly ftraiten-
ed in that Corner of the County of York where-
in they are now quartered, by the near approach-
ing of the Parliament's Forces ; which doth not
only bring great Hardfliips upon our Army, thro'
the Want of Accommodations and neceflary En-
tertainment, but alfo forceth an unjuft Burden to
be laid upon that Part which mould be aflifted
by the reft of the Country, and may occaiion
fundry Inconveniences betwixt our Forces and
thofe of the Parliament.

' The Confideration whereof makes us, with all
Earneftnefs, to defire your Lordfhips to deal ef-
fectually with the Parliament, that the Money fo
often prefled for, may be fpeedily provided, and
fent to fupply that extreme Neceflity of the Ar-
my, and they thereby be enabled to give fome
Satisfaction to the Country, for eafmg them of
Part of that Burden which they now bear ; and
that you would defire that Order may be given
to the Forces of the Parliament to forbear to
prefs upon our Quarters, that we may enlarge the
fame, that the little Part of the Country which
bears the Burden of all be not utterly wafted, and
the Armies ftarved \ being hopeful, if no Sup-

'piy

of ENGLAND.

ply be fent to the Army, and we forced to en- An
large our Quarters for avoiding thofe Evils, and
to make the Burden of this Part of the Country
to be lightened, it will be rightly underftood, and
that we have no further Ends therein but to pre-
ferve the Army and Country from Ruin. So ex-
peiting your Diligence herein, we remain

Ne-wcaflle, May 28, YoilT LordjhipS

1646.

Affeftionate Friends,

LEVEN, LANERK,
LOUDON, BALMERINO.

Next a Letter from the Scots Commiflioners re-
fiding in London, in Support of the foregoing :

Right Honourable, June 3» 1646.

\\7 ^ ^ave very frecluentty reprefented to the And a third from
*** Honourable Houfes the extreme Necefli- their Committee
ties of the Scots Army, and the dangerous Ef- at London*
fedls which were like to follow, if fome more
effectual Courfe be not taken for their necefTary
Provifions, whereby the Counties might be eafed,
and they not be burthenfome to thofe Places where
they did or do quarter. We have alfo earneftly
defired, That fuch Complaints, that were or
fhould for the future be fent up hither concern-
ing any Diforders in that Army, or Abufes com-
mitted by any Perfon or Perfons therein, might
be made known unto us, or to the Committee
of Eftates upon the Place; prom ifmg that, upon
Intimation given, and Proof made of the Offence,
the Offenders fhould be condignly and exem-
plarily punifhed.

« As by thefe and all other poffible Means and
Ways, we have diligently and faithfully endea-
voured to prevent Mifunderftandings and Dif-
ferences between the Kingdoms ; fo (from the
Confcience of the Solemn League and Covenant,
and of the particular Truft put upon us j from

* the

43 *

An. »* Car. I,

1646.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

the Scnfe of the prefling and ftill unremedied
Sufferings of our Army, our Ears being alfo filled
with the Noife of Complaints and Informations
come againft them, which fome do not only eafily
believe, and readily entertain, but with much
Art fpread and aggravate ; and, finally, that we
may, for our own Exoneration in point of Duty,
leave no Means uneflayed which may heal the
prefent, and prevent all future Jealoufies) we
cannot choofe, at this Seafon, but exprefs that
which iieth much upon our Spirits, and which,
being timely animadverted unto by the Wifdom
of both Houfcs, may produce good Effects to
their and our Comfort.

'. As we are confcious to the Sincerity of our
own Intentions and Endeavours to preferve a firm
Peace and Union between the Kingdoms, and
to bring the ^Var to a happy and fpeedy Conclu-
fion; fo upon our certain Knowledge we can
fay, That the Parliament of the Kingdom of
Scotland^ and, in the Intervals of Parliament,
the Committee of Eftates at home and with the
Army in this Kingdom, have proceeded, and do
proceed, upon the fame Principles, and toward
the fame Ends ; of which, fo far as conCerneth
the Committee with the Army, the Commiffion-
ers of both Houfes have often upon the Place
given ample Teftiraony ; which we doubt not
they have done here alfo, as they freely declared
they would do. Neither hath that Kingdom (to
our beft Knowledge) failed in the Performance
of any Article of the Treaty with this Kingdom,
which was to be performed on their Part, al-
though Provocations have not been wanting ; fo
that we are exceedingly amazed to hear fuch
Noife of a Breach expected between the King-
doms, which if it fliould fall forth (as the Lord
forbid) we are confident it neither liath nor fliall
have any Caufe or Rife from our Natron: "And
we are no lefs confident, That a Curfe from
Heaven {hall be upon thofe Perfons, who, for

' their

of E N G L A N D. 433

< their own Ends and Interefts, coloured with An. a* Car. I.

* falie though fpecious Pretences, are or {hall be

* plotting or ailing all they can to hinder a Peace Tune.
' and to continue a War; and when, through

4 God's Goodnefs, the common Enemies of theRe-

* ligion and juft Liberties of both Kingdoms are
4 in fo great a Meafure broken, left this fhould

< make an End of the War, do, or fhall apply
« themfelves to fow Difcord amongft Brethren, to

* make divifive Motions, and to create and increafe
•* Differences between the Kingdoms } and, for
4 that End, are extremely vigilant to catch, and

* actively to improve, the irmlleil Occafions, taken

* fometimes from groundlefs and falfe Reports,
4 fometimes from the Mifcarriages of fome few

* private Perfons, pinched with Want and pro*

* yoked with Reproaches.

* We {hall heartily wifh that He, in whofe

* Sight all Things are naked and manifefi, may
4 difcover and reiift all fecret Enemies of Truth

* and Peace, whoever they be; and we truft that

* God will fo direct the Honourable Houfes of Par-

* liament, that they will never comply with, nor
4 connive at, the Counfels and Ways of any Party,

* which, for their own Advantages, would not fpare

* to let in that Flood of Miferies upon this Ifland,
4 which cannot but follow upon the Engagement
4 of the Kingdoms in a War.

* We do alfo expedt from the Juftice and Wif-

* dom of the Parliament, That the Brotherly Way,

* formerly ufed for a good Correfpondence between

* the Kingdoms, may be remembered and refumed ;

* and particularly that, according to the Vote of

* both Houfes the lyth of Ottoler^ 1644, in Re-

* ference to our Paper of the I4th of September ,

* 1644, what Doubts or Objections (hall arife in

* either Houfe, upon Confederation of any thing

* propounded concerning the Scots Armies in £ng-
4 land or Ireland^ the fame be recommitted to a

* Committee of bpth Houfes, that after Debate

* with us, and full Underftanding of our Meaning,

* the Refults thereof may be reported.

Vot. XIV. F. e «tt

434

An. t* Car. I.

1646.

'The Parliamentary HISTORY

' If now the Honourable Houfes are or (hall be
unfatisfkd concerning any in the Scots Army, we
do faithfully promife and engage ourfelves in the
Name of that Army, that real and fpeedy Satif-
fa&ion fhall be given when it (hall be defired ;
and the Delinquents, when they (hall be made
known, feverely punifhed ; and if they be fuch
as have ferved in Arms againft the Parliament,
fhall be removed out of the Army : In which
Particular the Committee with the Army did
lately give an Evidence of their Willingnefs, up-
on Occafion of a Motion offered from fome of
themfelves to fome of the Commiffioners of the
Parliament, that a Paper might be delivered to
the Committee of Eftates from the faid Commif-
fioners of Parliament, defiring fuch as had been
in Arms againft the Parliament, to be removed
out of that Army.

' After this a Paper was delivered from the
Commiffioners of Parliament, propofing, That
fuch Subjects of the Crown of England as have
ferved the Enemy, and have not conformed to
the Ordinance of Parliament, might be removed
out of that Army. The Committee of Eftates
did return a moft fatisfactory Anfwer^ condefcend-
ing heartily to the Propofition^ and defiring from
the faid Commiffioners a Lift of the Names of
fuch Perfons, that they might inftantly be dlf-
charged ; promifing alfo they themfelves fhould
diligently enquire after them, and make it ap-
pear how cordially they love and honour the
Parliament of this Kingdom ; all which is more
fully expreffed in the Papers themfelves. There-
after, about the Time of the Removal of our
Army from Newark, the Commiffioners of Par-
liament, according to fuch Informations as they
-had, delivered in a Lift of the Peifons, wherein
there were named divers of our Army upon a
Miftake, they being of the fame Name with
fome that had ferved againft the Parliament;
but themfelves (to the perfect Knowledge of the
Committee) having never ferved againft the Paf-

* Jian.ent ;

of ENGLAND. 435

c liament ; yea, having come in with that Army 'An. 22 Car.

* at their Entry into this Kingdom. And as to l6^6'

* any others in that Lift, the Committee returned

* this Anfwer, That, according to the former En-

* gagcment in their Anfwer of the lyth of April^
5 fuch Perfons fhould be removed out of the Ar-
« my.

' Their Willingnefs to execute JufUce hath
' been manifefted in the Cafe of other Offenders,
11 as well as thofe who have been in Arms againft

* the Parliament. Upon fome Complaints againft

* the Reformadocs that were in that Army, by Or-

* der of the Committee of Eftates they were forth-
' with difcharged and removed out of the Army.

* And upon fome Diforders committed by others,

* a Council of War was called, and the Perfons

* guilty condemned and executed. It is true, the
c Commiffioncrs of the two Houfes delivered a

* Protefialion agamft that Way of Proceeding by

* a Council of War of the -Officers of the fame

* Regiment to whom the Delinquents did belong,
' but it was after the Council of War had met, and

* the Perfons were fen te need. And concerning that

* Way of Procedure, we defire it may be conii-

* dered, That it is the conftant Way of the Mi-
' litary Difcipline of Scotland, as it is in Germany
' and many other Places of the World, and which

* every Regiment claimeth as their proper Privi-
K lege. Some others have been lately put to death,

* and what more can be required at their Hands?

' As to the Complaints of the Country of their

* great Burdens : It is no wonder, feeing one Cor-

* ner thereof fuftaineth the Burden of the Main-

* tenance of that Army, when it fhould be equal-
' ly laid upon the whole Kingdom : For Remedy

* whereof, the Army, and we m their Name, have,
4 with much Importunity, dcilred Means from the

* Parliament to relieve them, or to fupply them-

* fclvcs ; and they arc molt willing to allow in

* their Accounts, what they receive in their Quar-

* ters j and have often dcfircd Corr.millionsrs to

K e 2 'be

436 The Parliamentary HISTORY

be Tent down to concur with them to adjuft the
Particular ; and if they knew of any other Way
to keep themfelves from diibanding or ftarving,
but by taking of Quarters in the Country when
no Money is provided for them, they would moft
heartily embrace it.

« When we fhall know any other particular
Complaints concerning Diforders in that Army,
then we fhall be ready to give fpeedy, juft, and
fatisfa&ory Anfuuers. This we can fay for the
prefent, That although Warrants have been if-
fued out to invite the Country to prefent their
Complaints concerning Diforders committed in
our Army ; (the like not being done concerning
Diforders amongft the Englijk Forces) yet upon
the Knowledge and Proof of any Offence fo
complained of, Juftice was done, which is the
moft that can be required : Although, likewife
all the 7"ime our Army was before Newark, our
Foot Soldiers had only one Penny Halfpenny per
Diem in Money and Provifions ; whereas the
Englijb Soldiers, employed in the fame Service
with them, had Eight-pence per Diem, and
Twelve-pence every third Day when they did
work. And although ftrr<5l Difcipline, and Juf-
tice againft all Abnfes, ufeth not to be expected
from an Army which recciveth fo little of their
Pay, yet there hath been more Striftnefs in pu-
nifhing Offenders rn that Army, than amongft
thofe who were much better paid.
4 We defire not to afperfe any, but only to
vindicate the Reputation of our own Army, and
to move the Honourable Houfes to take fome
more real and effectual Courfe for fupplying their
Wants ; and that they may be pleaied, for pre-
venting of further Differences, and for the greater
Eafe of the Country, to give Order to the Com-
mittee at York for the quartering of the EngVifn
Forces and eurs in the moft convenient Places -^
as likewife for fending to ours a ccnfidcrablc Pro-
portion of Money 'to difchafge thei: Quarters
and relieve their extreme Neceflities,

•It

of ENGLAND.

4 It is not light, but grievous, to us, to .hear An
4 of any Diforders at all committed by any Per-
4 fort in that .Army, (how great foevcr the Ne-
4 cefTities be unto which they are reduced) or
4 that our Army mould be any longer burtheh-
4 fome to this Kingdom. And we do, in the Name
6 of that Kingdom and Army, declare and aflure,
4 That as they came into this Kingdom upon an
4 earned Invitation from both Houfes of Parlia-
4 ment, and for the Ends cxprefled in the Covenant
4 and Treaty, and Declaration of both Kingdoms,
' (the Clofe whereof doth exprefs the Refolution of
4 both to have Truth and Peace fettled upon a firm
4 Foundation before their laying down of Arms)
4 fo their Continuance neither is, nor (hall be,
' made ufe of to the leaft Encroachment upon the

* Government of this Kingdom, nor to any other
4 Ends befides thofe expreflcd in the Covenant and
4 Treaty .; and how foon foever Religion and Peace
4 fhall be fettled accordingly, our Army and Garri-
4 fons fhall forthwith remove out of this Kingdom.

4 Thefe Things we fhall wifli may be fpeedily

* done, and that the Proportions for a fafe and
4 well-grounded Peace (which did for a very fhorl
4 Time remain in our Hands) may now, after fo
4 long Expectation, be fent to the King ; that,
4 upon his Royal Confent to the Defires of his
4 People for fettling and fecuring of Religion and
4 Peace, his Majefty may return to his Parliament
4 here i all Armies may be difbanded ; the heavy
4 PreiTures of the Subjects ended ; and the King-
4 doms may remain in a firm Peace and Union to
4 all Pofterity, according to. the Sslcmn League and
4 Covenant,

All the Notice we can fwu1 that the Parliament noth jlpufvl< re,
took; of this long Remwjlraucc was, that on the iolve tint th^.
6th the Houfe of Commons, at a Conference, de- h»« no father.

... r . rr • r \ • We tor the Scots

Jivered to the Lords the following rotes for thc*-r Arn.,y>
Concurrence, which were agreed to by them.

I, 4 That the Houfc of Commons do declare,

That this Kingdom ruth no farther Ufe for thr

Ee? Conti-

43 8 Tfo. Parliamentary HISTORY

An. « Car. I. Continuance'of the Scots Army within the King-
l6*^ _ ; dom of England

2. ' That the Sum of ioo;oco/. be forthwith
provided for the Scots Army ; 5O,ooo/. thereof to
be paid unto them upon the Delivery of all the
Garrifons except Berwick , which is to be ordered
and difpofed of according to the Treaty ; and the
Other 50,000 /. when they {hall be in the King-
dom of Scotland.

3. ' Thnt this Houfe doth agr.in defire, that the
Scots Commiflioners will fend to the Houfe the
Accounts of the Arrears of their Army ; and doth
declare that, upon the adjuftin-g of the Accounts,
they {hall be fatisficd that which {hail be due to
them according to the Treaty.'

The Scots Com- June S. The Scots CommiffioncTS fent another
dicat'io^'of^h-T Letter to the Lords, with one inciofed from the
Conduct, on pre- King to the Marques of Ormond, in Ireland, of a
fenting to die very {rrange Tenour i both which i'ufficlentlv ex-

Marquis of Or-

»ond. For the Right Hen. the SPEAKER of -the Houfe of

PEERS pro Tempore.

Right Honourable,

THIS inciofed Paper having very lately come
to our Hands ; which, although it had not
fo much as Colour enough to deceive, yet, never-
thelefs, as Major-General Afotiro, in Teftimony of
his Integrity, did communicate the Thing to the
CommifTioncrs of Parliament in VlJIer ; fo we, for
preventing Miftakes, (many Copies of the fame
Thing being fpread among the People) have
thought good to communicate the fame to the
Honourable Houfes, with our Senfe upon itj that,
by their Wifdom and reciprocal Cure, a right
Underfhnding in att Things may ftill bepreferv-
ed between the Kingdoms. Whether any fuch
Letter was figned by the King at Oxford, or
whether it was invented of purpofe to fupport a
declining Party, we do not know j what may con-

* cern

of ENGLAND. 439

* ccrn the King in it we leave to himfelf, who as An« « car. I.
*• he hath, fince the Date of that Paper, exprefled , 164<S<

* contrary Intentions and Refolutions in his Mef- \^%
4 fages to both Kingdoms, fo he can beft tell what

* he wrote at that Time ; we are only to fpeak to
4 the Matter of the Paper which cometh from the
4 Hand of Secretary Nicholas, unto whofe Infor-
4 mations what Credit ought to be given, the

* Houfes very well know.

4 It doth confift with our perfect Knowledge, and
4 we declare it with as much Confidence as ever
4 we did or can do any thing, that the Matter of
4 the Paper, fo far as concerneth any Aflurance or
4 Capitulation for joining of Forces, or for Com-
4 bining againft the Houfes of Parliament, or any
4 other private or public Agreement whatfoe-ver,
4 between the King upon the one Part, and the
4 Kingdom of Scotland^ their Army, or any in,

* their Name, and having Power from them, upon
c the other Part, is a moil damnable Untruth.

4 We (hall not need to exprefs how improbable
4 it is, if there had been any fuch Agreement, that
4 the King about the fame Time fhould have fcnt
' a MeJJage to both Houfes, offering to come to
4 London^ and to follow their Advice in all Things,
6 without offering any Satisfaction to the King-
4 dom of Scotland ; and that, before he received the

* Anfwer of the Houfes, he mould write fuch a Let-
4 tcr to Ireland, and give Orders ta make it known
4 not only to his Privy Council, but to. his other
4 Subjects of that Kingdom :

4 Nor will we inu,ft how improbable it is that
4 the King (hould make this known to the Mar-

* quis of Ormond, and neglect to acquaint th,c late
4 Earl of M-ontrofe, who had been much more

* concerned, and who would, no doubt, if he had
4 known any fuch Thing, have communicated the
4 fame to Major-General Mlddleton ; and prevent-
4 ed the defeating of himfelf, his Attbciates and

* Forces, about the Middle of /I^'>', after the King

* was with, the Scots Army.

E e 4 < Nor

t or y, HISTORY

A«- »» Car. I. « Now how unlikely it is that, he who is, for the '

164 ' l Time, Commander in Chief for the Scots Fortes'

".. ,une * in Ireland, fhould be 'for the Space of foven or

4 eight Weeks totally ignorant of any fuch Agree-

* ment j or, if he had known of any fuch, that'
' he fhoul J not have communicated it to the Coni-

* tniffioners of the Parliament, and immediately
4 marched himfelf to the Field againlt the Enemy ;

* Nor {hall we need to call to Mind the Expref-
' (ions in the Lord Digbfs intercepted Letters,

* .which gave our Nation the Character of fuch as

* could not be gained to that Side j no not after all

* Applications ufed. There are other more Cure

* and more public Teftimonies fince the Date of

* that lying Paper ^ which makes the Falfliood of
' it more than palpable ; as if Divine Providence
' had purpofely ordered all the late Actions of the

* Kingdom of Scotland and of their Forces, both
' . before and fince the 1 3th of April, to be fo many
' real .Confutations of that groundlefs Invention ;

* we mean fevcral late Fights with the Rebels un-
' der the late Earl of Montrofe, and Alajler Mac-
' donald\ the Delivery of TvVw ark ; the rcftrain-
4 ing and debarring of Delinquents and Malignants-
' from the King's Perfon and from our Army; the
' late public Declarations of the Church and State
e of Scotland in the Beginning of April ; as like-

— ^ wife of the General and Committee with the
' Army> agreed upon about the End of April^ and

* publifhed the 15th of May, in Scotland^ againft a

* Band of the Earl of Seaforth and his Affociates ;
'. as for other Reafor.s, fo efpecially for this, that
4 the faid Band did tend to the weakening of the
'* Confidence and Union between the two King-

* doms, firmly joined and mutually engaged for

* Aflifirance to each other in this Caufe, as may
' appear more fully by the Declaration herewith
' prefented.

* Nor can we pafs over the Paper delivered to
' the King, by the Committee of Eftates, the I5th

* of May laft, That if his Majefty {hould delay to

* go about the readied Ways and Means to fati^fy

4 both

••of ENGLAND.

•both his Kingdoms, they would be neceflitated, An.
for their own Exoneration, to acquaint the Com-
mittee of both Kingdoms at London ; that aCourfe
wiight be taken by joint Advice of both King-
doms, for attaining the juft Ends expreffed in the
Solemn League and Covenant,
* We (hall fay no more of this Particular. God

* hath his own Time to make manifeft who have
4 dealt fmcerely and who falfly ; and as our Na-

* tion did refufe to join with the Enemy's Forces
' when they were ftrongeft, and did join with our
' Brethren of England in their weakeft and moft
1 neceflitous Condition ; fo we fhall never look for
( a Blefling from God upon either Nation longer

* than they continue faithful to God and to each
4 other, according to the Covenant and Treaty.
4 And we do confidently expect, from the Wifdom

* and Juftice of the Honourable Houfes, that this

* and fuch like Papers {hall find no more Credit
4 here than Papers and Declarations againft them-

* felves did formerly find in Scotland; and that
4 Declarations and public Papers from the Kingdom
4 of Scotland^ or their Committees or CommilHon-
4 ers, fhall have fuch Acceptation with both Houfes

* as they defire Declarations from themfelves, or

* Papers from any in 'their Name, may have with
4 their Brethren of Scotland. Nor do we doubt

* but God will diffipate allthefe Clouds of Calum-
4 nies, and Mifunderftandings endeavoured there-

* by, and will give fuch a Frame of Spirit to both
4 Nations, as may continue them in a brotherly
4 Accord and mutual Confidence for the Good of

* both this and of the fucceeding Generations ;
4 which hath been, is, and fhall be, moft earneitly

* wifhed and faithfully endeavoured by

Tour very affeftior.ate Friends

Jf'oreeJfer-Hovff, aml bumble StTVaMtS-

June*, 1646.

T^AUDERDALE.

A. JOHNSTON. H. KENNEDY.
C. ERSKINE. R. BARCLAY.

P.S.

*77je Parliamentary HISTORY

'P. 8. * We have fcnt your Lordfliips here in-
clofcd an Order of the Committee of Eftatcs at
the Army, which will evidence their Care to re-
move out of that Army all fuch againtt whom
any juit Complaints have been made by the
Country/

The King's Letter to the Marquis of Ormond,
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, inclofed in the fore-
going.

CHARLES R.

Right Trufty and intirely beloved Coufln and
Counfellor, we greet you well,

ufed all poffible and honourable Mean:

, r ,. J TV* rr J

for go- by fending many gracious Mellages to the two.

u»g JntotheSwtj Houfes of Parliament, wherein we have offered them
all they have heretofore defer ed ; and defired from them
nothing but what they themfelves, fence theje unhappy
Wars, have offered to procure, our perfonal Treaty
with them for a fafe and well-grounded Peace ; and
having, in/lead of a dutiful and peaceful Return to
cur faid Meflages, received either no Anjwcr at all+
or fuch as argues nothing will fatisfy them but t/x
Ruin, not only of us, our Pojlerity, and Friends, but
even of Monarchy itfilf:

And having lately received very gcod Security that.
we, and all that do or Jhall adhere to us, Jball be
fafe in our Persons, Honours, and Consciences, in the
Scots Army ; and that they ftiall really and effeft ually
join with us, and with fuch as will come in unto us,
and join with them for our Prefervation, and -jkall
employ their Armies and Forces to affift us to the pro-
curing of an happy and well-grounded Peace, for the
Good of us and our Kingdoms, in the Recovery of our
jtijl Rights : ff^e have refolved to put ourfelvcs to the
Hazard of pajjing into the Scots Army, now lying
before Newark ; and if it Jhall phafe God that we
(ante fafe thither, we. are refolved to ufe our heft En-
deavours, with their Affiflante^ and with the Cwjunc-

tifa

of ENGLAND.

tion of the Forces under the Marquis of Montrofe, A
and fuch of our well- affe fled Subjects of England as
Jhali rife for us, to procure, if it may be, an honour-
able and fpeedy Peace with thofe who have hitherto
refufed to give Ear to any Means tending thrcunto :
Of which our Refolution tue held it necejjary to giv*
you this Adverttfement, as well to fatisfy you, our*
Council, and all our loyal Subj eels with you, to whom
we wit'/ that you communicate thefe our Letters, that
failing in our earnefl and fincere Endeavours, by Trea-
ty, to put an End to the Miferies of thefe our King-
doms, we efteemed ourfelf obliged to leave no probable
Expedient unattempted, to preferve cwr Crown and
Friends from the Ufurpation and Tyranny of thofe
ivhofe Actions declare Jo manifeftly, their Dejign to
overthrow the Laws and happy ejiablijhed Government
sf this Kingdom.

And now we have made known unto you our Re-
folution, we recommend to your fpecial Care the dif"
pojing and managing of our Affairs on that Side, as
you /hall conceive mojl for our Honour and Service ;
being confident the Courfe we, have taken, though with
feme Hazard to our Perfon, will have a good Influ-
ence on that our Kingdom, and defer, if not altogether
prevent, the Rebels tranfporting of Forces from t})cm
into that Kingdom.

And we defire you to fatisfy all our well-ajfefled
Subjeiis on that Side, of our Princely Care of them ;
whereof they Jhall receive the Effett as foon as God
Jhall enable us. We defire you to nfe fome Means to
let us and our Council at Oxon hear frequently from
you, and of your Aliens and Condition there. And
Jo God profper your lo<;al Endeavours.

Given at our Court at Qxon the 131)1 of April,
1646.

By his Majcfty's Command,

EDWARD NICHOLAS.
Tin*

444 The Parliamentary HISTQRV

An. 21 Car. I. This Letter from the King was feat, by the
Marquis of Ormond, to Major-Gcncral Hfonra,
under the following Cover :

SIR,

The Lords re-
torn Thanks to
the Scots Com-
mifiioncrs there-
upon.

Title to a Knowledge thereof, that I have held
' it my Part inftantly to difpatch it unto you by
« an Exprefs ; and fo, Sir, wifhing you all Hap-
" pinefs, I reft

Tour ajjured bumble $trOanty

Dublin-Cafih, May 21, O R M O N D.

1046.

After the reading of thefe Letters, the Lords or-
dered them to be printed (^), and their Speaker to
draw up an Anfwer to that from the Stats Commif-
fioners, which being done and read, was agreed to
jn thefe Words :

Wefiminjlcr^ June 8, 1646.
My Lords, and Gentlemen^

fTP H E Lords having received your Lordfhips
Letter this Morning, mentioning a Letter.

dated at Oxford^ April 13 (/>), 1646, have com-
manded me to let you know, that no fuch Paper,
nor any thing elfe, gives them Occafion to quef-
tion the Fidelity and Conftancy of the Scots Nation
unto this Caufe. And they reft well fati&ncd
with your Lordfhips Refpedls, and Care to pre-
vent all Jealoulies that may arife j and fhail like-
wife employ their Endeavours to preferve a mu-
tual Correspondency and a good Agreement be-
tween the two Kingdoms.'

But

(f) By an Tndorfement on the King's Later it ippcared to have
Veen fent by Mr. Walfinghfm, a Servant of the Lord Digby.

Comm'jr.s 'Jourr.ah.

fe) Thefe arc taken from the Edition printed by their Lord/hips
Order, hrjehn Wright, at the Kings Head, in the Old Bailey,
Jur.: 9, 1646.

(b) In the Edition of the Time*, in Riyflons Edition of the King's
Jforks, and in Rtifiwyrtl't Co'lejtitnt, this Lrtter is dated the tiir-
t.-niL of rffri/ : But in th« Common Journals the third.

tf E N G L A N D, 44$

But the Commons were much more brifk and An- 2Z Car- '
£i&ivc on the reading of the foregoing Letters ; for t i6**' ^
this Day the Queftion being put, Whether it ap- "
pears by this Letter from the King to the Marquis
of Ormond, dated as above, that the King went
into the Scots Army with a Defign to fet Diviflon
between the two Kingdoms of England and Scot-
land, and to continue the War againft the Englijh
Parliament? it paffed in the Affirmative.

'June 10. A Book 'was brought into the tloufe
of Lords, which they adjudged to be a fcandalous
Pamphlet, written againft the common Law of
England, and the Practice thereof, by Lieutenant-
Colonel 'John LUburnt j and he was ordered to ap-
pear before that Houfe to anfwer the fame.

Jane 1 1. The faid Lilburne appeared at the Bar Proceedings of
of the Houfe of Lords> but, inftead of anfwering ^"aglft"
any Queftions, he delivered a Paper, intituled, The Col, LUburne*
Protejiation, Plea, and Dtfeme of Lieutenant-Co-
lonel John Lilburne, given to the Lords at their Bar,
June ii, 1646; with his Appeal to his competent
and proper Judges the Commons of England, aJJemblcA
in Parliament.

Upon this the Lords ordered^ That the faid
Lieutenant-Colonel Jehn Lilburne fhould {land
committed to the Prifon of Newgate, during Plea-
fure, for bringing into this Houfe a fcandalous and
contemptuous Paper ; and that the Keeper of New-
gate fhould put him into fafe Cuftody.

The fame Day the following Anfwer to the
Commiflioncis of Scotland, touching the State of
the Accounts and Arrears of Money due to their
Annies an;i Kingdom, was agreed to by the Com-
mons, who ordered it to be font to the Scots Com-
mittee rcftding in London, in a Letter from their
Speaker, without afking the Concurrence of the
Other Houfe. The Commons

require the Scot?

Commons of F.ngland in Parlia- Ommiffioners to
ment ailcmbled, having declared to your sive infan *c"
' Lordfhips, that thera is no farther Ufe of conti- Drears arc /Je

' nuingtothcm,

* \T7 E

* W

An. 21 Car. I.
1646.

Parliamentary H I s T o R v

nuing the Scots Army in the Kingdom of Eng-
land-, and that we would provide 100,000 /. lor
the Scots Army ; 50,000 /. thereof to be paid upon
the Delivery up of all the Garrifons, except
Berwick, which is to be ordered and difpofed of
according to the 'Treaty ; and the other 50,000/1
when they fhall be in the Kingdom of Scotland \
we have, in purfuance thereof, appointed a Com-
mittee for the providing of the faid Sum, which
we (hall take Gare to fee paid accordingly.
* But whereas by a Letter from the Parliament
of Scotland ', of the third of February , 1646, ac-
cording to the Style of that Kingdom, they dd
demand of the Houfes of Parliament of England to
make Payment, before the third Day of May next,
of the Sums of Money duly owing by them to
that Kingdom, and their Armies in England and
Ireland, according to the Treaties between the
two Kingdoms) the Account whereof will be gi-
ven in by their Commiflioners : This Houfe (al-
though the Parliament of England was not en-
gaged to pay all the Money due to Scotland by a
Day) to the end they might apply themfelves to
fuch Courfes as might give the Parliament of
Scotland all poflible Satisfaction, did, upon the
26th Day of the faid February^ defire of your
Lordfhips, that the Account might be delivered
in to them accordingly, which they hare ever
fmce expected : But although the Money, by the
Parliament of Scotland^ was pofitively demanded
by the third of May Lift, yet from that third of
February until the twentieth of May laft this
Houfe never heard any Word concerning the faid
Account, although again defircd :
4 And whereas in the laft Letter your Lordmips
prefs, that both Houfes would appoint Com^
miflioners to join with the Commiflioners of the
Parliament of Scotland, to clear and adjuft the
Accounts, and remove all Differences concern-
ing the fame, as a Way unto xvhich they are
obliged by the ninth Article of the 'ffsoty bc-

* twecn

of ENGLAND. 447

' twcenthc Kingdoms; this Houfc conceivcth that Afl< ** Car« *»
* ninth Article to refer only to Matters of Differ- u-
ence that (hall happen to arife between the Sub- j,
je&s of the two Nations, which are to be de-
termined by the mutual Advice and Confent
of both Kingdoms, or their Committees ; and
cannot properly be applied to the Matter of Ac-
count, or at leall cannot be made Ufe of till an
Account be firft made upon which Differences
do arife : For although the clearing and adjuft-
ing thofe Accounts may poflibly, in Time, be
thought neceflary to be referred to Committees
of both Nations, and that Commiflioners may
be appointed, under the Great Seal, for the Ends
and Purpofcs ddired by our Commiflioners in Of-
tober laft ; yet, until we may undej ftand what
is demanded of us by the Kingdom of Scotland^
both in relation to that Kingdom and their Ar-
mies, we hold it contrary to the Courfe of all\
Proceedings, to refer to Committees what the
Houfe is not poflbfled of, or to go about to fur-
charge or difcount until we fee what will be de-
manded as due, and what acknowledged to have
been received upon the State of your Account :
* Wherefore we again moft earneftly deftre your
Lordfhips, that we may from you underftand
what the Sums are that are demanded by the
Kingdom of Scotland as due, not only to their Ar-
mies but to the Kingdom, in all P.elations what-
foever ; that we may take fuch fpecdy Courfe for
the Satisfaction thereof, as your Lord ill ips and
all the World may fee the Clcarncfs and Juftnefs
of our Intention^ towards you, and may remove
all Jealoufics and Mifunderilandings between the
two Nations.'

June 15. A Letter from the King was this Day
prcfcuted to the Lords by their Speaker, the Earl
of Mtmche/ler^ to whom it v/as addrefTed, with a
Ccn,n and from his Majefty to communicate it to
both Houics, and 10 the &<>/.? Commiflioners.

4 New-

44$ 22v Parliamentary H is T o R y

Newcaftle, June 10, 1646.
CHARLES R.

S Majejly looking with Grief of Heart upon
the fad Sufferings of his People in his three
Kingdoms for fame Tears pa (I, and being a fretted with
defiring their Diflrejfes and unquiet Condition, through the Dif-
themi'to haften trattions about Religion, the keeping of Forces on Foot
the Propofitions 'n fa p^y afjej Garrifons, the not fatisfying of Pub-
lic Debts, and the Fears of the further Eff'ufton of
Blood by the Continuance of an unnatural War in any
of thefe Kingdoms, or by rending and dividing thcfe
Kingdoms, fo happily united ; and having fent a gra-
cious MeJJage unto both Houfes of Parliament, and
the Commijjioners of the Parliament of Scotland, ex-
pr effing the necejjary Cattfes of his coming from Oxford
nnto the Scots Army, (without any Intention to make
a Divijion where he is in Freedom and right Capacity
to fettle a true Peace) and containing fuch Offers as
he conceived would have been accepted, with a general
Gaufe of complying with their Dejires : And being
impatient of Delays, and not acquainted with the Par-
ticulars which may give Contentment to them, his
Majejly doth earnestly dejire that the Proportions of
Peace fo often promij'ed, and fo much expeffed, may
be fpeedily fent unto him, that, upon Confederation of
them, he may apply himfelf to give fuch Satisfaflion as
•may be the Foundation of a firm Peace. And for the
better and more fpeedy attaining thereunto, his Ma-
jejly doth further propound, "That he may come to
London with Safety, Freedom, and Honour, where
he refolves to comply with his Houfes of Parliament
in every thing which may be mojl for the Good of Kit
Subjects, and perfcfl what remains for fettling both
Kingdoms and People in an happy Condition ; being
likewife mojl confident that they, according to their
reiterated Declarations and folemn Protejlations, will
be zealous in the Maintenance cf his Honour and jttft
and laivful Rights. And as his Majefty deftre the
Houfes of Parliament to difburthen the Kingdom of all
Forces and Garrifons in their Power ^ except futk as,

before

^ENGLAND; 449

before tbefe unhappy Times^ have been maintained for An« « Car. I.-
the nectjjary Defence and Safety of this Kingdom, fo
he is willing forthwith to dljband all his Forces and
Garrifons within the fame ', as the inchfed Order here-
with fent will evidence : And if , upon thefe Offers^
his Majejly jhall have fuch Satisfaction as he may be
confident a firm Peace Jhall enfue thereon^ his Majefty
will then give Order for his Son, the Prince's prefent
Return.

A Letter from the King to the Governors of his
Garrifons was alfo read.

To our Trufty and Well-beloved Sir-Thomas Glem-
ham. Sir Thomas Tildejley^ Col. H. Wajhington^
Col. Thomas Blagge^ Governors of our Cities and
Towns of Oxford, Litchfield, Worcefter, and
Wallingford, and all other Commanders of any
Towns, Caftles, and Forts in our Kingdom of
England.

Newcaftle, June 10, 1646.
CHARLES R.

TTAVING refolded to comply with the Defires ofKls Qr(Jer fof
**^ our Parliament in every Thing which may be furrendering all
for the Good of our Subjefis, and leave no Means his Carrifoni.
unejjayed for removing all Differences among ft us ;
therefore ive have thought fit , the more to evidence the
Reality of our Intentions of fettling an happy and firm
Peace, to require you, upon honourable Terms^ to quit
thofe Towns^ Cajlles^ and Forts intruded to you by us*
and to dijland all the Forces under your feveral Com"
mands.

And another to the Marquis of Ormond.

Newcaftle, June n, 1646.
CHARLES R.

Right Trufty and Entirely-beloved Coufin and

Counfellor, we greet you well.

TTTAVING -long, with much Grief, looked upon the dmg the' Mar-
•* •*• fad Condition our- Kingdom of Ireland hath qu'« of Ormond

teen in thefe divers Tears through the wicked and de- l? treat *ny .(vt'
\T xTTiT- wsr f f tncr with the

VOL. XIV. Ff

450 Tloe Parliamentary HISTORY

AD, z* Car. I. fperatc Rebellion there, and the bloody Effects that
have enfued thereupon ; for the fettling whereof we
would hove wholly applied ourfelves, if the Differ"
ence betvjeen us and our Subjects here had not diverted
and withdrawn us ; and not having been able (for
that refpecf) to reduce them by Force, we were necef-
Jitated, for the prefent Safety of our Protejlant Sub~
jefls there, to give you Power and Authority to treat
with them upon fuck pious, honourable, and fafe
Grounds, as the Good of that our Kingdom did then
require : But for many Reafons, too long for a Letter ',
we think ft to require you to proceed no further in
'Treaty with the Rebels, nor to engage us upon any
Conditions with them after Sight hereof. And hav~
ing formerly found fuch real Proofs of your ready
Obedience to our Commands, we doubt not of your
Care in this, wherein our Service and the Good of our
Protejlant Subjects in Ireland is fo much concerned.

Letters and Pa- Next the Earl of Manchejler figmfied to the
tKou CorT Lords, that the Scots Commiffioners had delivered
raiflioners, relat- to him feveral Letters^ and Papers inclofed therein ;
'»8 ^ the jro- ajj wnjch Were opened and read as follows :

Peace, the State

of their Army, And, firft, a Letter from the Committee of Ef-

tate* °^ ^cot^an^ tnen refiding wkh their Army at

NeWCO/tle.

For the Right Honourable the LORDS- and COM-
MONS of the Parliament of England ajjembled
at Weftminfter.

Newcajiky June 10, 1646.
Right Honourable,

NO T only our Confciences bear Witnefs to
ourfelves, but our Actions are a real and
public Teftimony to all Men who have marked
our Ways, fmce our coming into this Kingdom ,
how earneft our Denres, and how conftant our
Endeavours, have been to preferve the Union of
the two Kingdoms, as a principal Means of
Happiness to both, and for this End what our

cf ENGLAND. 45i

* Affe&ions and Care have been to obferve and An. 22 Car.
' perform the whole Articles of the Covenant and

* Treaties betwixt the two Kingdoms; yet thus '

* much we may truly fay, That at no Time fince

* the Beginning of our Engagements in this Caufe,

* have we, with more Sincerity and Faithfulnefs,

* endeavoured to improve our Opportunities for

* the Public, than now of late, fince his Ma-

* jefty's unexpected Coming into our Army, by

* our earned and inceflant Dealing with him to
' fend fuch Meffages to his Parliament as may give

* them full Satisfaction, and be a fure Ground of
€ Peace to his Kingdoms and of Happinefs to him-

* felf : And although we have not as yet fo far

* prevailed againft fuch Principles as, by Educa-

* tion, Length of Time^ and the Counfel and

* Company of fuch as have been formerly brought

* up with htm$ have been deeply rooted in his
' Mind, as to obtain the utmoft of our Deflres j
' yet have we not quite loft our Labour, nor are
' we without Hope but that, in a ftiort Time, he
' may be moved to give Satisfaction unto his

* People ; which, when it cometh, will be a Mat-
' ter of rejoicing to all that love the fettling of Re*

* ligion and Peace : And we do earneftly intreat,

* and confidently expedt, that the Houfes of Par-
' liament will, in their Wifdom^ and from their
' Love of Peace, be pleafed, with the Concurrence

* of the Commiffioners from the Parliament of
' Scotland^ fpeedily to fend fuch Propofetions and
< Demands to be granted by his Majcfty, as are

* necefTary for the curing the prefent Diftempers,

* the fettling of Religion, Peace, and the Safety

* of his Majefty's Perfon and Authority, concern-
1 ing the conferving the Union of thcfe Kingdoms ;
' which being fent, we {hall, upon his Majefty's

* Anfwer, clearly and diftinclly know how to pro-
4 ceed in this intended Pacification, and to fatisfy

* the Defires of the Parliament and our own in
4 difbanding our Forces, delivering up the Garri-

* fons poffeffed by us, and return home, after all

* our Sufferings, with the fame Chearfulnefs and

F f 7 * Affeaicn

Ibc Parliamentary HISTORY

Affe&ibn that we had when we came into fhi*
Kingdom. And we refolve ftiortly to fend fome
from us to give your Lordftiips further Informa-
tion of our Proceedings here, that, by mutual
and joint Advice, fuch Things as may ferve for
the Good of both Kingdoms may be brought to
a fpeedy and happy IfTue ; which is the earneft
Defire of

Your Lord/hips bumble Servants,

LEVEN.
LOUDON.
LANERK.
ARGYLE.
CRAWFORD and

LINDSAY.
LOTHIAN.

CALLENDER.

DUMFERMLINE.

A. HEPBURN.
Ro. FREEBAIRN.
D. HOME.

J. SCHAW.

W. GLENDINNING.

Next a Letter from the Scots Commiflioners in
London.

To the Right Honourable the SPEAKER of thf
Houfe of P E E R s pro Tempore. To be commu-
nicated to the two Houfes of Parliament.

Right Honourable,

WE have frequently, and for a long Time,
reprefented to the Honourable Houfes our
earneft Defires of a happy and fpeedy Peace ; of
which we are fo ftudious, that we cannot ceafe
from expreffing the fame Defires on all Oppor-
tunities ; and the rather at this Time, becaufe of
the fad Stroke lately fallen upon our Brethren in
Ireland', whofe former and prefent Sufferings,
under which they groan, do, of themfelves, call
fo loud that we doubt not the Houfes, in their
Wifdom, Care, and Commiferation, will timely
and effectually apply themfelves to the compof-
ing of all Differences, and the fpeedy fettling a
happy Peace in this Ifland, whereby they may
be enabled to fend further Aid and Succour un-
to that Kingdom, for profecuting of the War,
and reducing of the Rebels to Obedience j and,

'for

of E N G L A N D. 453

for the fame Ends, fpeedily to fend Provifions to An. az Car. I.
the Scots Army there, who, for many Months,
have received nothing, notwithftanding their
Faithfulnefs and great Sufferings in the public
Service. Another Occafion now miniftred unto
us is, from the prefljng and unfupplied Neceffities
of our Army in the North of this Kingdom, who
are extremely ftraitened in their Quarters and
Provifions ; for remedying whereof the Lord-
General and Committee of Eftates with the Army
did write unto the Committee of York^ and to
Colonel-General Poyntz, who, in their Anfwers^
have declared no Unwillingnefs, but they are
not enabled by any Power from the Parliament
to afford them the defired Affiftance and Satisfac-
tion towards the Enlargement of their Quarters,
or bettering of their Provifions, as will more fully
appear by the Letters themfelves herewith pre-
fented : We do, therefore, yet again earneftly
defiie that the Honourable Houfes will be pleafed
to give Orders to the Committee at York, for
the convenient quartering of the Scots Army, and
accommodating them with neceffary Provifions ;
that the Burthens of the Country, occafioned, to
our great Grief, by the failing of the due and
orderly Courfe for providing for that Army, may
be eafed ; to which End we do alfo renew our
former Defire, for fending them from hence a
confiderable Sum of Money towards the Dif-
charge of their Quarters.

' We mutt further make known, that as the
Committee of York and Colonel-General Poyntz,
in their Letters of the 4th of this Inftant 'June,
do fairly and ingenuoufly give Tertimony to the
faithful and careful Endeavours of the Committee
of Eftates, for preventing Mifunderftanding and
for preferving Peace and Amity betwixt the*
Kingdoms, in which they were pleafed, in their
Letter, to give for Inftance the Order of the
Committee of Eftates for preventing the further
Entertainment of fuch as fhould give Occafion
of Offence, and for difbanding the Regiment of
Ff3 'Myor-

454 1%* Parliamentary HISTORY

An. »i Car. !• e Major-General Vander-Efck ; which, as the

1646. <• Meflerger fent hither doth aflure us, is already

*- " ' ' put in Execution, and none of them are fuffered

" ' to be received into other Regiments. And as

' that Honourable Committee, in their Paper of

' the 8th of this Inftant, prefented to the King,

' (which we do herewith communicate) and in their

' own Letter to the Honourable Houfe, have ex-

' prefled their firm Refolutions not to fuffer them-

* felves to be divided from their Brethren of Eng-

* lan^ with whom they are united by the Solemn
' League and Covenant ; but to preferve that happy
c Union, and to obferve the Articles of the Cove-

* nant and Treaties between the Kingdoms j fo,
' upon the moft particular and affured Knowledge

* which we have of their faithful Zeal and unani-

* mous Endeavours, we do faithfully and conftantly

* fay, That if both Houfes had been Witnefles of

* their privy Confutations, as before, fo efpecially

* fmce his Majefty did unexpectedly come amongil

* them, it had been inftead of many Demonftra-

* tions to remove Jealoufies between the Nations,
' and to breed a more fit Confidence of their Sin-

* cerity and Integrity towards this Nation : We
' therefore, joining and co-operating with them
' for the faid good Ends, do, with all Earneftnefs,
4 defire the expediting of the Propojhlons to be fent
< to his Majefty, that, by the Blefling of God upon
« the joint Defures, Counfels, and Endeavours of

* both Kingdoms, Religion and Peace may be with

* all poffible Speed fettled, all Diftempers and Dif-
« ferences healed, all Armies in both Kingdoms dif-
' banded, the Country eafed, our diftrefTed Bre-
' thren in Ireland relieved, and a firm Peace and

* Union in that Ifland continued to the Generations

* following; than which nothing can be more
earneftly defired or endeavoured by

$ Your Lor4fi*Ps kumble Servants*

LAUDE RDALE.
A. JOHNSTON. CH. ERSKINE.
Ro. BARCLAY. H. KENNEDY.

P. S.

^ENGLAND. 455

P. S. ' We do again earneftly defire that the A». ai Car. I.
Honourable Houfes will fend a Committee to l6+6t
join with the Committee of Eftates, who may be
Witnefles of all their Proceedings, and co-ope-
rate with them for the Good of the public Ser-
vice there.

Copy of a Letter from the Committee at York
to the Scots Commiffioners at Newcajlle.

May It pleafe your Honours,

WE find, by your Lordfhips Letters of the
I ft of June, you are not pleafed to give
any Hopes of the removing of your Forces out of
this County, which we have been often Suitors
for, in regard of their Difability to bear the
Charge of both Armies ; and we cannot forbear to
renew the fame Suit ftill. Inftead whereof your
Honours are pleafed to continue to defire our
Affiftance in the quartering of, and providing for,
the Army here; to which, my Lords, we inuft
deal ingenuoufly. As we had not Power in that
Particular heretofore, fo neither, at this prefent,
have we in that or any other public Employment,
by reafon the Ordinance by which we a&ed ex-
pired the laft of May, and we have as yet receiv-
ed no Intimation from the Parliament of their
Pleasure for the Continuance of it.
' We oftentimes applied ourfclves to the Houfe
for their fpeedy Courfe for the Proviilon of your
Army in fome equal Way, and do expect a Re-
turn daily ; till then, efpecially in the Condition
we now are in, we hope your Lordftiips will not
expe£t any further Anfwer from us herein ; and
that your Lordfliips will reft fatisfied in the Re-
ality of our Defires and Care to do the utmoft
of our Power that may fpeak our Conftancy to
our Covenant, and our Zeal to prevent Miftakes
that may any way weaken the happy mutual
Amity between the two Nations : And truly,
my Lords, we cannot but, with many honour-
< able Refpe&s, take Notice of your Lordfhips
Ff4 'Car*

June.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

Care therein, and of that Honourable Inftance
your Lordfhips have given us in your Order for
difbanding of Col. Vander-Efch's Regiment; in
Execution whereof we concejve your Lordfhips
will do yourfelves and the Caufe much Right.
' My Lords, fo foon as we (hall have any Re-
turn from the Parliament, we (hall readily give
your Lordfhips a further Account ; in the mean
Time lhall defire to be accounted, as we are,

nrt, June 4, 1 646. Your Lord/hips humble Servants,

GEO. MARWOOD. DAR. WENTWORTH.

THO. ST. NICHOLAS. Wn>. GOODWYN.

JOHN FARRER. TH. BOURCHIER.

Ro. WYMORE. GEO. TROTTER.

JOHN MlCKLETHWAITE.

Copy of a Letter from Colonel-General Poyntz
to the Scots Commiflioners.

Right Honourable^

I Received your Letter of the firft of June in-
ftant, and as I perceive your Lordfhips do
fufpend your Refolutions concerning the more
Northerly quartering of your Army, till you have
a Return from the Committee of both Kingdoms ;
fo I hope your Lordfhips will not think of any
Thing further from me, in a Buiinefs of fo great
Concernment to this poor Country, till I mall
likewife have the Pleafure to hear from thofe
above, whofe Commands and Directions your
Lordfhips will apprehend I am engaged to ferve.
' My Lords, I fhould highly injure your Lord-
fhips and myfelf alfo, if, upon iill Occafions, I did
not acknowledge your Lordfhips great Care and
prudent Circumfpec~lion to carry on the Public
Affairs, in which both Nations have a reciprocal
Intereft, fo as the happy Union may be preferved,
and the Ends which are mutually driven at in the
National League may be beft atchieved ; and I

' hope

of E N G L A N D.

hope your Lordfhips will not take any Complaints An
I have reprefented, as tho' I had the leaft Inten-
tion to reflect upon your Lordfhips Particulars :
And truly, my Lords, I do, with many humble
Thanks, acknowledge it a great Favour to myfelf,
and a convincing Evidence to the World, with
what Wifdom your Lordftiips have conducted
yourfelves, and as a frefh Inftance of your Lord-
fhips Defire to prevent every Occafion of Diftafte,
in that your Lordfhips have given Orders for the
Difbanding of Major-General Vander-Efctis Re-
giment, and for the preventing of the future En-
tertainment of fuch as give Occafion of Offence;
the effecting of both which will be certainly of
very great Confequence, and of very honourable
Interpretation.

' For my own particular, as I fhall ever deem it
my Honour and Happinefs, in any Civil Relation,
to be inftrumental to the Public Good; fo none
fhall1 be more ready to manifeft what a large
Share thereof he doth account is lapped up in
being efteemed, as he is,

Tork, June 4,
1646.

My Lords,

Tour Lord/hips humble Servant,
SIDENHAM POINTZ.

The Scots Commiffioners Anjwer to the Com-
mittee at York.

Noble Gentlemen,

WE do perceive by your Letters of the 4th
Inftant, That the Ordinance of Parlia-
ment, by which you a£led in all public Employ-
ments, expired the laft of May ; fo that you are
not furnifhed with Authority to afford us any
Afliflance in the quartering and providing for
our Army, which we fhall forbear therefore to
prefs any further ; not doubting but when you
are better enabled, and your Power enlarged,

' you

458

June.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

you will continue your public Care to do every
Thing that may be for the Good of the Army,
and preferving the mutual Amity and Union of
the two Kingdoms, which we (hall ftudy to con-
firm by all Ways and Means that are in our
Power, having alfo ferioufly recommended thof
fame to Lieutenant-General Lejley ; whom we
defired to repair to us about the executing of
that Order for difbanding Major-General Vander-
Efck's Regiment, and that he would likewife take
fpecial Care to prevent all Miftakes that might
beget any Mifunderftanding betwixt us. So we
remain

Tour mojl tumble Servants^

LEVEN,
ARCYLE,
CRAWFORD and

LINDSAY,
LOTHIAN,
LOUDON,
CALLENDER,

LANERK,
DUMFERMLING,
D. HOME,
A. HEPBURN,
THO. KERR,
WM. GLENDINING,
R, FREEBAIRN.

Copies of two Papers delivered to the King at
Newcastle : The firft figned by the Committee of
Eftates of Section^ ': The other not only by all that
Committee, but alfo by the General Officers of
the Scots Army.

June 2, 1646.
your Majefty,

May it pleafe your Majefly^

WE humbly reprefent to
That we conceive that it will much con-
tribtlte to the Good of your Service, and the bet-
ter procuring a right Understanding and well-
grounded Peace ) if your Majefty were pleafed
to give Order that the Prince's Highnefs go
not beyond Sea; but that he may {lay within this
Kingdom, fo as he may refide therein with Ho-
nour and Safety, for preventing the Dangers
which may be to his Perfon and Religion, and
the Jealoufies and Inconveniences which may

* enfue

of E N G L A N D. 459

enfue upon his Highnefs's going out of this King- An. az car. I.
dom in this Jundture and Time of Affairs. *646-

May it pleafe your Majefty^ June 8, 1646.

WHEREAS, upon Confideration of the pre-
fent Condition of Affairs, and Senfe of
our Duty, we did, in all Humility and Faithful-
nefs, advife and befeech your Majefty, that you
would be pleafed to fend fuch a Mejjbge to both
Houfes of Parliament and Commiffioners of Scot-
landy as might be a Ground for fettling Religion
and Peace according to the Solemn League and
Covenant, it is (till our earneft Defires that your
Majefty would be gracioufly pleafed to fend fuch
a MeJJ'age^ for the further Satisfaction of your
Parliaments, and preventing of imminent Dan-
gers which may enfue upon the Delay thereof;
which if your Majelty fhall not (out of your
Wifdom and Compaffion of the fad Condition of
your Kingdoms) be pleafed to grant, we fhall be
conftrained presently to take fuch a Courfe as
that, by mutual Advice and Refolutions of both
Kingdoms, they may be faved from Breach and
the dangerous Sequels thereof.

The Scots Commiffioners Anfwtr to Colonel-
General Pointz.

Newcajtle, June 10, 1646.
Right Honourable,

* \\1 E received yours of the 4th inftant, (hew-
' \\l ing that you could not fatisfy the Defires
' of our former Letter^ nor afford us any Satisfac-

* tion towards the Enlargement of our Quarters,
4 until their Pleafure were known whofe Direc-
4 tions you are to obferve.

1 And feeing you are not furnifhed with Autho-

* rity on that Behalf, we {hall not further prefs it

* until you be authorized and enabled, not doubt-
' ing you will manifeft the Continuance of that
' Friendfliip whereof we have always had the Ex-
c perience ; in the mean Time we cannot but be
' very fenfible of your Expreffions and Acknow-

' ledgment

Tie Parliamentary H I s T o R Y

ledgment of your Care and Faithfulnefs in our
public Employments, and (hall endeavour fo to
behave ourfelves in purfuing the Ends of our
Covenant, that all our Ways and A&ions may
fpeak Conftancy and Zeal to preferve the happy
Amity and Union of both Kingdoms, and to
prevent every Thing, to the utmoft of our Power,
that may tend to the Infringement of that Union i
' in Aflurance whereof we reft

Tour moft bumble Servants,

LEVEN, DUMFERMLING,

ARGYLE, LOTHIAN,

LOUDON, A. HEPBURN,

CRAWFORD and D. HOME,

LINDSAY, R. FREEBAIRN,

LANERK, J. KERR.
CALLENDER,

All which arc All the foregoing Letters and Papers were or-
2cS^Sdercd to be communicated to the Houfe of Com-
a Conference, mons at a Conference, and a Letter of Thanks to
be written to the Committee of Eftates in Scotland.

The Reafon of this Conference was to deliver
the foregoing Letters, &c. to the Commons, and to
remind them that the Lords had formerly commu-
nicated to them the King's Letter of the i8th of
May laft, and did defire it might alfo go into the
Hands of the Scots Commiffioners, according to
the Direction on it : But that they found it had
lain ever fmce in their Cuftody ; therefore the Lords
did defire that both of them might be communicat-
ed to the Scots Commiffioners by thofe Members
of each Houfe as were of the Committee of both
Kingdoms : Alfo that the King's laft Warrant
might be fent to Sir Thomas Fairfax, to be for-
warded by him to all the Governors of his Ma-
jefty's Garrifons and Forces.

June 17. The Earl of Warwick acquainted the
Lords, That the Commifiioners of the Admiralty

had

of ENGLAND. 461

had received an Account that one of their Ships An.
had intercepted a Letter from the King to the
Prince of Wales, in the Ifle of Jerfey. It was ta-
ken from a Mafter of a Veflel going to that Place,
which the Lords made no Scruple to open and
read, though it was all written and directed with
the King's own Hand (a}.

For my Son the PRINCE.

CHARLES,

CT*H I S is rather to tell you where I am, and that An intercepted
/ am well, than, at this Time, to direfl you any Letter from the

'Thing; having written fully to your Mother what^Z tor£,e.
T i, i & , f T j , Pnnee of Wales,

/ would have you do, whom 1 command you to obey

in every Thing, except in Religion, concerning which
I am confident Jhe will never trouble you ; and fee
that you go no where without her's or my particular
Directions. Let me hear often from you, and fa God
blefs you.

Your Loving Father,

• Newcaftle, June 4,

'M. CHARLES R.

P. S. If Jack Amburnham comes where you are,
command him to wait upon you as he was wont, un-
til 1 fl)all fend for him, if your Mother and you
be together ; if not, he^mujl wait on her.

Along with this Letter came the King's Pafs for
the Mafter of the Veflel, figned by the Earl of
Lanerk, both which were ordered to be fent to the
Commons and to the Scots Commiflioners ; but we
do not find that any Ufe was made of them.

"June 23. The Scots Commiflioners fent a Paper
this Day to the Lords to inform them, That the
Marquis of Argyle was lately arrived from Scotland,
and had fomewhat to communicate to both Houfes

by

(a) This Letter, which is copied from the Lords Journal^ is
printed in the King's fPtrki, but not in any other CollefJiont of thefe

Parliamentary HISTORY

I. by Command ; they defired, therefore, that 2
Time and Place might be appointed for that Pur-
pofe.

On which Meflage the Lords ordered, That a
Committee of twenty of their Houfe, and a pro-
portionable Number of the Commons, {hould meet
the Marquis, in the Painted-Chamber ^ on the 25th
Inft. at Two in the Afternoon, and that fuch other
Lords as pleafed might be prefent.
Further Proceed- This Day alfo Col. Liiburne was, by Order,

ings in the Cafe brought to the Bar of the Houfe of Lords ; and be-
et Col. Liiburne. S „ , . , , ^ .. ' - f
ing directed to kneel there as a Delinquent, he refuf-

ed it. After which the Houfes proceeded to read a
Pamphlet, faid to be wrote by the faid Liiburne ^ cal-
led The Freeman's Freedom vindicated. It was then
ordered that Col. "John Liiburne ^ for his Contempt
to the Houfe, and being queftioned for two fcan-
dalous, feditious, and moft dangerous Pamphlets,
tending to raife Sedition, and to fubvert the Fun-
damental Laws and Government of this Kingdom,
and alfo containing fcandalous Matter againft this
Houfe, and fome Members of the fame, fhali be
remanded back to Newgate ; and not permitted to
have Pen, Ink, nor Paper, nor any Accefs to him
in any Kind, but only his Keeper, until this Court
fhall further order ; and that in the mean Time the
Attorney-General and the King's Counfel (hould
prepare and exhibit Articles againft him. But

The Commons feemed as if they intended to
take the Colonel's Part, and juftify his Appeal to
them as his proper Judges ; for fome Days after
this, on the Petition of his Wife prefented to that
Houfe, in behalf of her Hufband, (then clofe Pri--
foner in the infamous Prifon of Newgate^ with his
Appeal ^and all his other Papers) after two Divifions
on the Queftion, it was carried and refohed^ That
the Petition and Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel
John Liiburne {hould be committed to the Com-
mittee formerly appointed to confider of the Pri-
vileges of the Commoners of England. But it is
probable they dropped this Caufe afterwards, fctf
we do not meet with any Report made about it.

2 June

of E N G L A N D. 463

June 26. The Earl of Manchejler made a Re- An- « Car. I.
port this Day to the Lords of what paffed the Day t l646' ,
before in the Painted Chamber ; where he faid the j^g.
Marquis of Argyle delivered himfelf to the Com-
mittee of Lords and Commons in the following
Speech :

My Lords and Gentlemen^

< HPHOUGH I have had the Honour to be named The Marquis of
« -•- by the Kingdom of Scotland in all the Com- Argyle's Speech
« miffions which had Relation to this Kingdom *J ab

' fince the Beginning of this War, yet I had never

* the Happinefs to be with your Lordmips till now ;

* wherein I reverence God's Providence, that he
' hath brought me hither at fuch an Opportunity,
' when I may boldly fay, it is in the Power of the
' two Kingdoms, yea, I may fay in your Lord-

* mips Power, to make us both happy, if you

* make good Ufe of this Occafion, by fettling of Re-
' ligion, and the Peace and Union of thefe Kingdoms.

< The Work of Reformation in thefe Kingdoms is

* fo great a Work, as no Age nor Hiftory can pa-
' rallel fmce Chrift's Days ; for no one Nation
' had ever fuch a Reformation fet forth unto them,
' much lefs three Kingdoms : So that this Gene*

* ration may truly think themfelves happy if they

* can be inftrumental in it. And as the Work is

* very great, fo it cannot be expected but it muft
' have great and powerful Enemies, not only Flefh

* and Blood, which hate to be reformed, but Prin-

* cipalities and Powers^ the Rulers of the Darknefi
c of this World, and Spiritual IVickednefles in high

* Places. As the Dangers are great, we muft look
c the better to our Duties ; and the belt Way to
' perform thefe, is to keep us by the Rules which

* are to be found in our National Covenant ', prin»»
« cipally the Word of God, and, in its own Place,
« the Example of the beft Reformed Churches ;
' and, in our Way, we muft beware of fome Rocks,
' which are Temptations, both upon the Right and
c Left Hand, fo that we muft hold the middle

* Path. Upon the one Part we fhould take heed

« not

464 ^ Parliamentary HISTORY

not to fettle lawlefs Liberty in Religion, where-
by, inftead of Uniformity, we fhould fet up a
thoufand Herefies and Schifms, which is directly
contrary and deftru&ive to our Covenant. Upon
the other Part we are to look that we perfecutc
not Piety and peaceable Men, who cannot, thro*
Scruple of Confcience, come up in all Things to
the common Rule: But that they may have fuch
a Forbearance as may be according to the Word
of God, may confift with the Covenant , and not
be deftru&ive to the Rule itfelf, nor to the Peace
of the Church and Kingdom ; wherein I will in-
fift no further, either to wrong your Lordfhips
Patience or Judgments, who, I doubt not, will
be very careful to do every thing according to our
Covenant.

' As to the other Point, concerning the Peace
and Union of thefe Kingdoms ; I know it is that
which all profefs they defire ; I hope it is what all
do aim at : Sure I am, it is that which all Men
ought to ftudy and endeavour. And I think it
not amifs to remember your Lordfhips of fome
former Experiences, as an Argument to move us
to be wife for the future. If the Kingdom of
England, in the Year of God 1640, then fitting
in Parliament, had concurred, as they were de-
fired, againft the Kingdom of Scotland^ no Quef-
tion we had been brought to many Difficulties,
which, blefled be God, was, by the Wifdom of
the Honourable Houfes, prevented : So, like-
wife, when this, Kingdom was in Difficulties, if
the Kingdom of Scotland had not willingly, yea
chearfully, facrificed their Peace to concur with
this Kingdom, your Lordfhips all know what
might have been the Danger : Therefore let us
hold faft that Union which is fo happily eftablifh-
ed betwixt us ; and let nothing make us again
two, who are fo many Ways one ; all of one
Language, in one Ifland, all under one King,
one in Religion, yea, one in Covenant ; fo that,
in effect, we Differ in nothing but in Name,
(as Brethren do) which I wifh were alfo re-

* moved,

of ENGLAND.

c moved, that we might be altogether one, if the An.
4 two Kingdoms fhall think fit: For I dare fay,
4 not the great eft Kingdom in the Earth can pre-

* judice both, fo much as one of them may do the

* other.

4 I will forbear at this Time to fpeak of the

* many Jealoufics I hear are fuggefted, for as I do
4 not love them, fo I delight not to mention them :
4 Only orte I cannot forbear to fpeak of, as if the
4 Kingdom of Scotland \vcrz too much afrected with
4 the King's Intereft. I will not deny but the
4 Kingdom of Scotland, by reafon of the Reign of
4 many Kings, his Progenitors, over them, hath

* a natural Affection to his Majefty, whereby they
4 wifh he may be rather reformed than ruined:
4 Yet Experience ihay tell their pcrfonal Regard
1 to him hath never made them forget that com-
4 mon Rule, The Safety of the People is the fitpreme
' Law: So likev/ife their Love to Monarchy makes

* them very defirous that it may be rather rcgu-
4 lated than deftroyed ; which I hope I need not to
4 mention further to your Lordfnipo, who, I trull,
-* are of the fame Mind.

••' I know likewife there ;;rc many Jealoufies and

* u nj uft Afperfions caft upon the Scots Armies in
4 England and Irflsnl: I can, if it were needful,
4 prefentl y produce Heads of a Declaration intcnd-
4 ed by the Army in England for vindicating them-
4 fclves from fuch Injuries, and fhev.'ing theClear-
4 nefs of their Refolutions and Integrity, both in
4 the Caufe and towards this Kingdom ; wherein
4 their Undertaking «nd Coming in at fuch a Sca-
4 fon of the Year, their hard Sufferings and con-
4 ft.-int Endeavours fince, may be fufficient Tefti-
4 monies : Therefore I ivn the more bold to defire
4 your I.ordfl-up?;, That fo long as they fray in
4 England, which I \viOi muyte-tbr a inert, Time,
4 they may be fupYiied with Orne Mojiie's, and
4 their «^_iartcrs enl&fg«d ; left their lying in too
4 narrow (^nrror;; rn:-.ks the Burthen tefopporteMe
4 to tint exha-iRcd Corner of the Country whcte
4 they now rorn/'in, and fo bep-ct vO uteri;-: as ill ^

VOL. XIV.- G e «ihrm.

The Parliamentary HISTORY

them, when they are not enabled to difcharge their
' Quarters, as other Armies within the Kingdom.

* As for the Army in Ireland ; I have been an
' Eye-Witnefs to their Sufferings, and fo may
' fpcak of it likewife upon certain Knowledge, that

* never Men have fuffered greater Hardftiips, who
' might have been provided for ; they have lived
' many Times upon a few Beans, meafured out ta
' them by Number, and never had any other Drink

* but Water j and when they were in fome better
' Condition, they had but an Irijb Peck of rough
4 Oats for a whole Week ; and now, at their beft

* Condition, when they are quartered upon the

* Country (which is able to entertain them only
' for a very fhort Time) they have only an Irijh
' Peck of Oatmeal, or a Shilling in ten Days both

* for Meat and Drink. Therefore, according to
' the many Defires given in to the Honourable

* Houfes for that End, I humbly intreat that your

* Lordfhips will take Care to provide for them, fo
« long as it is thought fit that they remain in that
4 Kingdom.

* For a renewed Teftimony of our earneft De*-
' fires to comply with the Honourable Houfes for

* fettling the f*eace of thefe Kingdoms, fo much

* longed for, we do return unto your Lordfhips

* the Proportions of Peace (which we received on
' Tuefday laft) with our Confent thereunto, wifh-

* ing they may be hailed to his Majefty, who hath

* fo often called for them. And I likewife offer to

* your Lordfhips the Copy of his Majefty's Letter

* to my Lord of Ormond, difcharging him from any

* further meddling in any Treaty with the Rebels
•* in Ireland (a)) I hope in order to his Majefty 's

* further condefcending to the fettling of that Pro-
*• pojition concerning Ireland^ and the reft of the
*• Proportions now to be fent unto him.

* Another Paper there is, which concerns the

* fupplying of the Scots Armies in England and Ire-
' land* and the perfecting of the Accounts between
' the Kingdoms, together with a Letter from Ge-

* neral-
(<i) See before, p. 4^9.

I

of ENGLAND.

neral-Major Monroe^ to the Committee of Eftates
of the Kingdom of Sect/and, concerning the State
of Affairs in Ireland, All which, when your Lord-
fhips have confidered, I truft ye will take fuch
Courfe therein as may fatisfy our juft Defires,
may put an End to our prefent Troubles, and
fettle thefe Kingdoms in a happy Peace.'

"he Paper wherein the Commijjioners for the King-
dom of Scotland confent to the Propofitions of
Peace.

June 2 5, 1646.

T is above a Twelvemonth fithcnce we did Tj,e Scots Com-
earneftly prefs the fending of Propofetions to miffionm Affent
the King for a fafe and well-grounded Peace. In to the pr°P°fi-
Anfwer whereunto, the Honourable Houfes were t10
pleafed to acquaint us, That they had refolved
Propofitions (hould be fent to his Majefty, but
did intend to make fome Alterations in the for-
mer Propofitions; and, after eight or nine Months
Deliberation, we received from the Honourable
Houfes fome of thofe Propofitions : And though
we did find therein very material Additions, Al-
terations, and Omiflions, which, for their great
Importance, and the Intereft of the Kingdom of
Scotland therein, might very well have required
the Delay of an Anfwer until the Eftates of that
Kingdom had been confulted ; yet fo unwilling
were we to retard the Means of Peace, that, in
a Fortnight's Time, we returned an Anfwer upon
the whole Proportions: And the Houfes of Par-
liament not refting fatisfied therewith, in lefs than
ten Days we prepared a further Anfwer; where-
in we did very much comply with the Defires of
the Honourable Houfes, efpecially in the Matter
of the fettling of the Militia of England and Ire-
land; and in other Things did (hew our Readi-
nefs to hear or propofe fuch Expedients as might
determine our Differences : So that, in a whole
Year's Time, the Proportions have not remained
in our Hands the Space of four Weeks, which
we only mention to clear our Proceedings from
G g 2 « Miftakes

An. 21 Car. I
1646-

The Parliamentary HISTORY

Miftakes and Afperfions : And the Houfes hav-
ing now, after two Months farther Deliberation,
delivered unto us, upon the 23d of this Inftant
June, alf the Proportions they intend to fend to
the King at this Time, we do, without any De-
lay, return fuch an Anfwer and Refolution there-
upon, as will be, to the prefent and future Gene-
rations, one undeniable Teftimony, befides ma-
ny others, of the Integrity and Faithfulnefs of the
Kingdom of Scotland in their Solemn League and
Covenant^ of their Love to Peace, and earneft
Defire to fatisfy their Brethren of England in
thofe Things which concern the Good and Go-
vernment of this Kingdom : Being further rcfolv-
ed, touching the Kingdom of Scotland, That as
nothing of fingle or fcle Concernment to that
Nation did engage them in this War, fo nothing
of that Nature (hall continue the fame.
' Although thefe Proportions now to be fent do
much differ from the Prepofttions formerly agreed
upon by the Parliaments of both Kingdoms ; and
the moft material Additions, Omiffions, and Al-
terations, are in fuch Particulars as concern the
joint Intereft and mutual Confidence and Con-
junction of both Kingdoms, which were, as we
conceive, much better provided for and flrength-
cned by the former Proportions than by thefe ;
although the particular Proppfiticnsy prefented by
us concerning the Kingdom of Scptictal, are not
yet agreed unto by the Hcufcs of Parliament, as
was ciFereu in their Paper of the loth of dpril \
although divers Propcfitidns of joint Concernment
be now fuperfcded, and the fending of them de-
layed to a more convenient Time, as is exprcf-
fed in the Fetes of both Tioufcs of the 26th of
March ; and although (which is to us more than
ail the reft) thofe Ordinances of Parliament, unto
which the fifth and Jixtb Propcfsticr.s do relate,
(and were therefore communicated unto us upon
our Defire to fee what the Kcufes had alrc.cy
agreed upon concerning Religion') do rot a n ; in
the Eftablifhment of inch a Rtforrnatior, (A F -

of E N G L A N ft. 469

* ligion and Uniformity as was expected, and was An. a* Car. i.
' the chief End of our Engagement in this War. l64-5-

' And as all thefe Ordinances put together come ^

' fhort of what we wimed, fo there are fome Parti-
' culars which we conceive to be inconfiftent with

* the Word of God, and the Example of the beft
' Reformed Churches ; and therefore cannot, in

* our Confciences, confent unto them; which Par-

* ticulars were exprefted to both Houfes in the Rt~ ,
£ monjlrance of the Commiflioners of the Church

' of Scotland, of the Date March 26, 164.6. Yet,

* nevertheless, we do fo earneftly defire, and fo

* highly value, the eaiing of the heavy PrefTures un-
-* der which both Kingdoms groan, and the bring-
' ing of this bloody lading War to a fpeedy and
'- happy End ; confidtiring withal that not only

* the Book of Common Prayer and the Prelatical
' Government are aboliftied, and a Common Di~
•* re&ory of Worfhip eftablifhed in both King-

* dome, but that likewife the Ordinances aforemen-*
*' tioned do contain divers Parts of a pofitivc Re-
•*' format ion and Uniformity in Church-Govern-
•<-? frient, unto which we formerly gave our Confent,

* in our Anfwer upon the whole Propofitiom of Peace

* of the 2oth of April-, and for fo happy a Beginning
' and fo good a Foundation laid for the future, we

* heartily thank Go'd, and do acknowledge the Zeal,
' Piety, and Wifdorn of the Honourable Houfes
' therein ; remembering a'Jfo that thofe Ordinances

* do not contain the whole Model of Church-
< Government, and that the Houfes have been
' pleafed to exprefs, That it cannot be expefled lhat

* a perj~e£i Rule in every Particular /hould be fettled
' all at once ; but that there will ke Need of Suppk-

* ments and Additions, and haply of Alterations, in
' foni€ Things, as Experience flail bring to Light //.v

* NeceJJity thereof.

' Upon thefe Confiderations as we do chearfully

* confent to many material Parts of thefe Propo-
' Jitions, fo we refolve to make no Let, but to give

* Way to the fending of fuch other Particulars
' therein contained, with which we are unhitisficd

G g 3 * iu

The Parliamentary HISTORY

* in the Matter, for the Reafons formerly repre-
c fented to both Houfes (of which fome ftill ftand

* in Force, though others of them be taken away
' by the new Expedients;) it being alwaysunder-
' ftood, that our not difienting from, norouroppo-

* fmg of the fending of the Proportions, as they now

* ftand, {hall be no Prejudice nor Impediment to
' all or any one of the Articles of the Solemn League
' and Covenant, efpecially to the firft Article con-

* cerning the Prefervation of the Reformed Reli-
' gion in the Church of Scotland, in Doctrine,

* \Vorfhip, Difcipline, and Government, againft
' our common Enemies ; the Reformation of Re-

* ligion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland^
' in Doctrine, Worfhip, Difcipline, and Govern-

* ment, according to the Word of God, and Ex-
4 ample of the beft Reformed Churches ; and the

* bringing of the Churches of God in the three
' Kingdoms to the neareft Conjunction and Uni-
' formity in Religion, Confeflion of Faith, Form

* of Church-Government, Directory for Worfhip

* and Catechifmg ; which Things both Kingdoms
' are, by Covenant, obliged fmcerely and really to

* endeavour ; and that not for a Time, but con-

* ftantly : So that neither of the Kingdoms can be
' loofed or acquitted from the moft ftrict and fo-

* lemn Obligation of their continued and conftant

* endeavouring thofe good Ends, fo far as any of

* them is not yet obtained : It being alfo under-
' ftood, that our Concurrence to the fending of

* the Prcpofitions, fhall be without Prejudice to any
' Agreement or Treaty between the Kingdoms,
' and {hall not infringe any Engagement made to

* the Kingdom of Scotland ; nor be any Hinder-

* ance to our infixing upon the other Proportions

* already made known to the Houfes : And it being

* underftood, that it is not our Judgment that every

* Particular and Circumftance of thefe Proportions
f is of fo great Importance to thefe Kingdoms, as

* that Peace and War fhould depend thereupon.

* Upon thele Grounds (which we make known
<• only for clearing our Conferences, and for dif-

4 charging

^ENGLAND. 471

charging ourfelves in theTruft put upon us, with- A"* « Car.
out the Icaft Thought of retarding the fo much
longed-for Peace] we condefcend and agree that
the Propo/itionsy as they are now refolved up-
on, be, in the Name of both Kingdoms, pre-
fcnted to the King ; whofe Heart we befeech the
Lord wholly to incline to the Counfels of Truth
and Peace.

By the Command of the CommiJJioners for the King-
dom of Scotland.

JOHN CHIESLEY.

Another Paper prefented by the Scots CommiJJloneny
of the fame Date with the foregoing.

HAVING fo often reprefented by Papers, and Thelr Remon
now by Word, to the Honourable Houfes, ftnoee for fup-
the extreme Neceflities of our Armies in Eng- plying their Ar-
land and Ireland, we fhall not trouble them mi« in Englan-l

. . — V, . . . . and Ireland, tor

with unneceflary Repetition, but only mention fettling their Ac-
thofe Defires which require their very fpeedy counts, &c.
Confideration.

1. ' We defire that, for eafing the Country of
their great PrefTures, and preventing many dan-
gerous Inconveniences, the Quarters of the Scots
Army in the Narth of this Kingdom may be en-
larged, and, a confiderable Supply of Money dif-
patched unto them.

2. * That Money, Provifions, and Ammunition
may be fent to the Scots Army in Ireland, and the
fame Care taken in providing for them, as for
other Forces employed in that Kingdom.

3. £ That the 5000 Arms, long fmce promifed,
and in an Ordinance of both Houfes of the 26th
of Augnjl, 1645, referred to the Care of the
Committee at HaberdaJher's-Hall, may be fpee-
dily provided ; and that the Honourable Houfes
will be pleafcd to grant Power to that Commit-
tee to contrail and make Payment, as well as to
treat for furnifliing of thefe Arms; by rcafon of
which Defect in the Ordinance, the lending of
thefc Arms hath been hitherto retarded.

G g 4 4.

*fhe Parliamentary HISTORY

4. < That to prevent the further Invafion of the
Kingdom of Scotland by the 7n> Rebels, Ships

Tune ' ma}r ^e Prefcntty fent to Attend the Coafts be-

* twixt Scotland and Ireland; and the Commanders

* of thefe Ships authorized with fuch Inftru&ions
' as are agreeable to the treaties betwixt the King-

* doms.

5. ' That the Honourable Houfes will be pleaf-

* ed to fend Commifficners to join with the Com-

* mittce of Eftates refiding .with the Scots Army,

* who may be Witnefles, as of their other Pro-

* ceedings, fo of their earneft Defires and real En-

* deavours with the King, for giving fpeedy. and
' full Satisfa£tion tp both Kingdoms. And it is

* alfo our earneft Requeft, That thefe Cornmif-
' fioners may have Power to treat and agree with

/. ff-"lhe Committee of Eftates, concerning the ftat-

•" * ing of the Accounts-, and fettling any Differences

^ that may arife thereupon : And further to treat

' '.'• V. !•) ' and agree upon Overtures, eftirnated Mediums,

o. /.or Expedients for the fpeedy fettling thereof,

* (which we are confident may be done in a very
,* few Days) and either finally to conclude them,

* or reprefent them to both Houfes ; whereby,
' with all poffible Expedition, upon the fettling of
*• the Propofitions and Accounts, fuch Courfe may

_? be taken as that all Armies may be difbanded,

* the Kingdoms eafed of their heavy Preflures and

* infupportable Burdens ; and fo, all Things be-

* ins; fettled in a brotherly Way> w£ and our P°f-

* terity may, after fo unhappy and troublefome a

* War, enjoy a quiet and blefled Peace.

By Command of the Commijjioncrs for the Kingdom
of Scotland.

JOHN. CHIESLEY(^),

h Ho-'frs or y«tf* 27. This Day the Lords were informed,
f« « Mainte- by <\ Letter from Sir Thcmas Fairfax, that the
nance for the -Duke of York intended fhcrtly to come to London^
puJfe of York, j^j deftred that four Coaches and fix Horfes might

be

(<S) The fortgoing Speech of the M?ri^tiis of Arg<)'f 2nd tfce Pa-
pers of the Sctti Commilfioneis, are taken from th« £diti(>n therr^J
publiihed by their Authority, at L^r.d^n, by Laurence Ci-afma.'jf
jxne.2.1, 1646.

of E N G L A N D. ^ 473

be appointed to attend him ; alfo that fome Courfe An. sz Car, I.
might be taken for Money to maintain him, he be- *646-
ing now in much Want. The Lords ordered this
Intelligence to be communicated to the Commons,
and that it {hould be referred to the Committee of
the Revenue, to make fome Provifion of Mcme^ f6r
his Maintenance; which the Commons agreed 'to.

The Parliament, on the Duke's Arrival, had
all the King's Children, except the Prince of Wales,
in their Cuftody. The Princefs Elizabeth} and the
Duke of Gloucejlcr had been at St. James1 r Houfe
ever fmce the King left it. And the yt>UJlg£ft
Princefs, Henrietta, of whom the Queen was dt-
Jivered at Exeter, was "taken in that City at the
laft Rendition of it. The Countefs of D&lktith,
whom the Queen had left Governefs over this
Child when ihe went into France, had often . ap-
plied to Parliament for fome Allowance of Money
for the Support of it ; or, tit leaft, that ihe might
be repaid the Money fhe had laid out foerfelf for
that Purpofe. But though the Lady's Petitions on
this Score were always ftrongly recommended by
the Lords to the Houfe of Commons, no Allow-
ance was made : Upon which the Cbuntefs took an
Opportunity to flip away with her young Charge,
and conveyed it fafe to its Mother in Frtince.

About this Time alfo the King's two Nephews, Thc Commons
Prince Rupert and Maurice, who had ferved their require the Prin-
Uncle very gallantly and faithfully: and bv the Ar- ces RuP5rt and

• i .- i p j r /n f j L. j T L- Maurice to leave

tides ot the Surrender of Oxford, had Leave givtn the Kingdom.
them, by Sir Thomas Fairfax, to go where they pica-
led, went accordingly to Oatlands in Surrey, one? of
the King's Palaces j which the Houfe of Commons
hearing of, they fent them Word, 'June 29, 'to
depart from thence and out of the Kingdom in fen
Days Time (A). But, before their Departure, they
thought fit to addrefs tne following fubrrnffivc Let-
ter to the Houfe of Lords.

fir

(b] On the 2, 5th of this Month the Commons divided on the
Qucftion, Whether the two Princes ftuulti have Leave to rcfide aC
Oatlands? it was carried againft them, 7; to 63. The nrxt Day
|hc Rcfolutio;! lor their Bani/hment v/as carried by 75 to 6a.

474

The Parliamentary H i s T o R v

June. €

Their Addrefs to (
the Houfe of
Lords on that

Cctalion.

.An, 2* Car. I. F°r f^e Speaker of the Houfe of Peers, my Lord of
1646. MANCHESTER.

My Lord, Oat lands, June 28, 1646.

OU R earned Defire to your Lordfhip is,
That you will be pleafed to reprefent to
the Houfe of Lords, that, upon the clear Appre-
henfion that we had of the Senfe of the Articles
concerning the Surrender of Oxford, and our
Pafs from the General, we departed to Oatlands,
as in our Way, and for fome Time a convenient
Diftance for our Addrefs to the Parliament; that
as foon as we had received the Votes of the Houfe
of Commons, declaring that, by our coming hi-
ther, we had broken the Articles, and com-
manding us, within ten Days, to depart to the
Sea Side, and forthwith to depart the King-
dom, we did inftantly refolve to move from this
Place, as foon as in any Poifibility we could,
and to apply ourfelves to give them Satisfaction
concerning our coming hither.
' We befeech your Lordfliip to make it known
to the Lords in Parliament, that, if we could
have conceived it would have given any Offence,
we would not have come hither ; and now,
upon Knowledge that it hath, we are removed :
And though we do not know whether your Lord-
fhips have taken into Confideration our coming
hither, yet have we ventured to offer you and
their Lord/hips this Trouble, for Prevention of
any Apprehenfions they may have of any Thought
in us to do any thing that we could conceive
might offend the Houfes of Parliament, to hin-
der ourfelves from the Happinefs of receiving
Benefit or Favour from them, which we value
too much to lofe j and which we will not fail to
keep by our utmoft and beft Endeavours. My
Lord, we arc

Tour Lordjhip's

faithful Friends to ferve you,

RUPERT.

MAURICE.
We

of E N G L A N D. 475

We do not find that the Lords took any Notice An, »* Car. i.
of this Letter from the two Princes ; all we meet l646 M
with about them is, That, on the humble Requeft juvn<!j
of their Brother the Prince Elector, who was then
;at London, and in the Parliament's good Graces, whkh meet$

he was permitted to fee them before their Depar- with no Regard.

ture : A few Days after this they both embarked at

Dover, as did alfo the Prince of Wales from the Ifle

of Jerfey, for France.

The Judges being about this Time, by Order
«f Parliament, to fet out on their Circuits to hold
the Summer Affixes, the Houfe of Commons
thought proper to inftrucl: them what they fhould
deliver in their Charges to the feveral Counties ;
a Copy of which, from their Journals, finiihes the
Affairs of this Month.

INSTRUCTIONS for the JUDGES, to be given in
Charge by them in their feveral Circuits.

I. '¥ N their Charges, to let the People know, inftruftions
' * That the Intentions and Endeavour of this from the Com-
Parliament have been, and yet are, to free the ?t2"estjjf ^,5
Subjects of this Kingdom from all unlawful Taxes
and Charges, and from all arbitrary Power in Ju-
dicature, to be exercifed over them, concerning
their Lives, Perfons, or Eftates.
II. * That, in Purfuance of thefe their Inten-
tions, by the Endeavour of this prefent Parlia-
ment, the enlarged Bounds of Forefts, Ship-Mo-
ney, Money for Knighthood, Monopojies, Coat
and ConducTr-Money, and all other unlawful
Taxes and Charges upon Wares and Merchan-
dize, and inland Goods, have been taken away;
and likewife the Star-Chamber, High Commiffion
Court, the Bifhops and their Courts, the Mar-
fhaU's Court called the Court of Honour, the
Court of the Prefident of Tork, have been taken
away ; and the Council Board, Stannary-Courts,
and of the Prefident and Council of the Marches
in Wales, regulated and brought within due
Bounds.

JII. ' That

476

An. xz Car. J.
1646.

Parliamentary HISTORY

III. « That whereas, fithence the Beginning of
this War, many and great Seffinents, and other
Charges, have been laid upon them by the Par-
liament, to the Impoverifhing of them in their
Eftates ; and unufual and vaft Powers have been
exercifed over them by Governors of Forts,
Caftles, and Towns, by Committees of Parlia-
ment, and otherwife, by Authority from the Par-
liament; to let them know, That the Parliament,
in this Time of War, was neceflitated thereunto,
for the Good of the Kingdom ; and that what hath
been done at fuch a Time of Neceflity, {hall not
be drawn into Example to their future Prejudice.
' To let them know theNeceffity of this War;
ajjd that it was not Ughtly undertaken, but to pre-
ferve the true Reformed Proteftant Religion, and
the Laws made this prefent Parliament, and in
former Ages, for the Eafe and Liberty of the
Subjects ; and for bringing Traitors, and other
notorious Delinquents, to J uftice : That, as the
prefent War hath coil the Kingdom much Blood
and Treafure ; fo Magna Charta, and the Li-
berties that from our Anceiftors defcended upon
us, coft them much Sweat and Blood : That We.
were bound to be as juft to our Children, and the
Generations to come, as they were unto us.

* To let them know, That all ©r moft of the
L&rds and Commons, who ferve in Parliament,
have been as deep Sufferers by the War as others,
befides their daily Labour and Attendance.

* To let them know, That as, by the Bleffing
of God upon the "Forces of the Parliament, the
•Strength of the Enemy is much abated, and di-
vers Places are now in the Power of the Parlia-
ment, which formerly were under the Enemy ;
fo, as the Neceflity of the War will permit, they
will proceed to mitigate and abate thofe Charges :
And, as they have already laid down fome Garri-
fons, ft> are they difcharging all others that fha'll
not be found neceflary to be continued, until the
Peace, by God's Bleffing, be fully fettled : All

« which

of E N G L A N D. 477

* which Garrifons likewife in the Power of theAn- ** Car. I,
4 Governors, and in the Pay, (hall be regulated, ^^

' and put into an orderly Way.

4 To let them know, That the Houfes are fen-
' fible of the Miferies that inevitably accompany a

* Civil War j and that they will take all Occailons
' to procure a fafe and well-grounded Peace : And

* as, lince the prefent War, the Parliament hath

* twice fent Proportions to the King for Peace ; the

* Firft whereof were treated upon at Oxford about

* March 1643 > and tne Second at Uxbridge> in

* February 1644; fo have they again agreed upon

* Proportions to be fpeedily fent for that End.

* To let the People know the Care the Parliament
4 hath taken, that, as far as the Diftraftions of the

* Times would permit, the public Juflice of the
' Kingdom fhoifld be adminiftred, by providing a
4 Great Seal, the other being carried to Oxford ;
4 without which the Judges would have had nothing

* to do ; nor any Felons, Murders, or Robberies,
4 been punifhed j nor Sheriffs, nor Juftices of the

* Peace been made ; nor Writs could have been

* awarded for new Elections of Members in the
4 Commons Houfe in Places vacant: That, in Part,
4 they have fupplied the Places of the Judges that
4 deferted their Truft : And whereas divers that
4 have been nominated Juftices of the Peace in
4 Counties have not yet taken their Oaths, where-
4 by the Service in their Counties is negle&ed, the
4 Judges are to return their Names.

4 Whereas, by that which hath been done hi

* this Time of War, the true Intention of the Par-
4 liament may be mifconftrued, as if they intended
« by themfelves, or others under their Authority,
4 to exercife an unufual and arbitrary Power over
4 their Fcllow-Subje£s ; to let them know, as, by
4 their Endeavours, the Star-Chamber, and the
4 other arbitrary Courts before-mentioned, have
4 been taken away, and others regulated, fo they do
4 intend to regulate the Proceudincs in the Chan-

* eery, Exchequer-Chamber, and other Courts ;

* and

<Tbe Parliamentary H I s T o R V

An. « Car. i.< and that the Houfes of Parliament, nor either fcf
them, will interrupt the inferior Courts of Juffice
Jun*. m tne'r ufual and juft Proceedings : And to let

them know, That the Intentions of the Houfe*
have been, and ftill are, to endeavour the Tak-
ing away of all arbitrary Power in Judicature ;
and that the Lives, Perfons, and Eftates, of the
Subject be judged and determined by the ancient
and known Laws of the Kingdom ; that the Peace
not being yet fully fettled, there is more Caufe
now, than at other Times, to take care that
Watch and Ward be made in the feveral Parifties
and Places fitting, for apprehending of Soldiers
without Pafles, and all other Perfons fufpicious j
to be careful of Alehoufes, and other Places,
where loofe and diforderly Perfons ufually refort.
' To fee the Laws againft Jefuits and Popifh
Priefts, and the other good Laws of the Kingdom,
be duly put in Execution ; and, in fpecial, thofe
that concern Robberies, Thefts, and Murders.'

Of which the We have given thefe InftruRiom at Length, to
lords forbid their (hew how anxious the Commons were t® have the
Obfervance. people of Engiand poflefled in their Favour : But
the Lords refufed their Concurrence to them ; and
ordered, That the Judges fliould give only fuch
Things in Charge as were in their Commiflions ;
and that, for the Time to come, Care fliould be
taken to prevent impofmg upon the Judges fucb
Things as were not within their Commiflions, as
had been in former Times and lately done, to the
countenancing of very illegal Things, and obftrucV
ing fuch as concerned the common Juftice of the
Kingdom.

at this Time.

The State of the The King's Affairs and all his Friends in Eng~
King's Affairs land being now quite ruined and fubdued, and he
himfelf a Kind of a Prifoner in the Scots Army,
the Parliament had nothing to fear from the Roy-
alifts in this Kingdom, nor of any Efforts they
could make to ferve his Majefty : But yet they
2 were

of ENGLAND.

were very far from being cafy on account of the An
Scots, whom, as Mr. Whitlocke obferves, the Pref-
byterian Party here ftrove to fupport «s far as mo-
deftly they could. General Fairfax and his
Friends were of this Number, whilft Cromwell
was of a contrary Party, who were Enemies to
the other's Defigns of Conformity ; but as yet car-
tied on their Bufmefs with much Privacy and Sub-
tilty. Thefe latter Sort were fecret Enemies not
only to the King, but to all Kingly Government -%
and confequently endeavoured, underhand, to ob-
ftru& any Union between his Majefty and the Par-
liament, which would have entirely ruined all
their own ambitious Projects and Defigns.

£N£> of the FOURTEENTH VOLUME,

POSTSCRIPT.

O/ NC E this Volume was printed ojf^ a B0ok has
'** fallen into our Hands^ wherein the Affair of the
Iriih Treaty is fully difcuffed, and which deferves the
Attention of every impartial Reader* It is intituled^
An Enquiry into the Share which King Charles I.
had in the Tranfaclions of the Earl of Glamorgan^
afterwards Marquis of JVorctfter^ for bringing over
a Body of Irijh Rebels to affift that King., in the
Years 1645 and 1646; in which Mr. Cartf's im-
perfecT: Account of that Affair, and his Ufe of the
MS. Memoirs of the Pope's Nuncio, Rinucdni9
are impartially confidered. The whole drawn
from the beft Authorities, Printed and Manu-
fcript.

University of California

SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY

405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1388

Return this material to the library

from which it was borrowed.

FormL

3 1158 00984 2757

J

301
H17
1762

J,^™™ REGIONAL LIBRARY F,

A 000017961 4

Uni